Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 07/07

20070174381 - Communication system, network for qualification screening/setting, communication device, and network connection method: The present invention provides a network connection method which prevents connection by virus-infected communication devices or communication devices intended for unauthorized access to a network, and enables connection to the network in a simple manner. A user of a requestor communication device connects to a main network by inserting a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070174382 - Home code setting method for home network system: The present invention discloses a home code setting method for a home network system which can overcome a spatial installation limit and improve reliability of network connection. The home code setting method for the home network system includes the steps of connecting a network server to one network, searching for... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070174383 - System and method for effectively configuring a marketsite application integrator: A system and method for effectively configuring a marketsite application integrator may include an application program running on a computer device that is coupled through a computer network to other 10 electronic entities for performing various types of electronic commercial transactions. An application integrator may be coupled to the application... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070174380 - Systems and methods for rapidly enabling brew-based wireless handsets for content development: An application development system comprises a test-enable authority configured to store test-enable software for a plurality of mobile communication devices. In order to develop new applications, e.g. BREW applications, for a mobile communication device, the mobile communication device should be “test-enabled.” Mobile communication devices can be test-enabled using test-enable software... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070174385 - Computer system, method and software for establishing, managing, evaluating, classifying and storing on a server a set of server client digital media files under direct control of server client for delivery to third parties: The present invention provides a network multi-theater forum and server management system, comprising a computer system loaded with at least one software module having logic that permits network server clients to individually collect, store, manage, and directly control computer digital media files in their theater area on the server management... Agent: J G Mullins

20070174384 - Sidebar communication system and method: A computer implemented method is described. The method includes receiving an event associated with a user selection of an item displayed by a sidebar application running on a first client. The sidebar application being an application that is configurable to aggregate multiple types of items from sources external to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070174386 - System for providing multi-phased, multi-modal access to content through voice and data devices: A method for accessing content through multiple devices, e.g. Telephone (1) and/or a data device (4) such as a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) or Web Enabled Mobile Phone, is discussed where a user can initiate interaction with data through any device (mode), and then switch to another mode of interaction... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070174390 - Customer service management: A customer service management (“CSM”) system that is configurable through graphical user interfaces to incorporate an array of contextual information, including customer context, qualifications of products/services for which support is provided, service context information, knowledge context, tools context, and reporting context. The contextual information is mapped to rules for routing... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070174389 - Indicating recent content publication activity by a user: Collecting and distributing information related to recent content publication activity of an instant messaging (IM) user provides other users in a network with timely, relevant information about people known to the user or within the same social network. A user participating in a social network can quickly and efficiently perceive... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070174388 - Integrated voice mail and email system: A method for managing text messages, includes transcript of voice mail media mail (voice mail or text message) messages. The media mail messages can be stored in a client device or a media mail server. A media mail message is a text-based message or a text transcription of at least... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070174387 - Methods and apparatus for implementing real-time collective moderation of collaborative environments: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for implementing real-time collective moderation of collaborative user environments by allowing participants in a collaborative environment to collectively control a level of interaction allowed for a target participant in real time. In an embodiment of the invention, collaborators are provided with a user... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070174393 - Method for recoverable message exchange independent of network protocols: A remote mobile device periodically connects with a centralized data server to receive updated information. Because of the mobile nature of the remote device, a download of all available information may not be able to be completed during the initial network connection. When the mobile device can again reconnect to... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20070174401 - Apparatus, method and system of sending and receiving for supporting application-based mms: Sending apparatus, receiving apparatus, sending method, receiving method and sending and receiving system for supporting application based MMS. The body of an incremental MMS includes a dynamic data section of MMS, a static data indicator associated with the MMS, and a link tag between indicated static data and the dynamic... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070174391 - Distribution device for optimized distribution of short messages to an ip-compatible terminal: Short messages (SMS) or short messages containing images (MMS) are sent in a reliable, cost-optimized, and time-optimized manner to an IP-compatible terminal, e.g. a set-top box that is connected to a telecommunication network by expanding the functions of the distribution center for SMS/MMS messages and a registration entity for IP... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070174397 - Electronic networking and notification system: An electronic system and method for networking and notification that permits a law enforcement officer from a first agency to obtain database information relating to a law enforcement seizure from databases belonging to other agencies. Such access is facilitated by a web-site maintained at a notification server, which acts as... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070174394 - Email collaboration manager: A collaboration managment system and method is provided for logging, monitoring, alerting, and striping attachments from comunications to and from a client/contact into a single record. The colloboration managment system receives electronic messages from the one or more devices, strips a first electronic message of a header and content, and... Agent: Loza & Loza LLP

20070174396 - Email text-to-speech conversion in sender's voice: Multiple authors' voices can be used in a text-to-speech (TTS) conversion of an email thread so that each part of the thread is read in that author's voice. A tag is used to identify which text portion corresponds to which author. Voice characteristics can be originated from an author's sending... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070174400 - Ims budget control for a media change during an ims session: IMS gateway systems and methods are disclosed for providing budget control in an IMS network. IMS networks allow for media changes (e.g., audio to audio/video) during an IMS session. An IMS gateway system described herein receives a session control message (e.g., SIP INVITE message) responsive to the media change during... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070174392 - Information system: An internet-supported information system for selective representation of data emails (8) from a plurality of data providers (X, Y), which can be called up for a plurality of data receivers (E), comprising a central information server (1) provided with an email interface unit (4), a web interface unit (10), a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070174399 - Offline im chat to avoid server connections: An instant message (IM) connection is established at an IM server in the usual manner, under the policies and security rules promulgated by the IM service provider. Using this connection to the IM server, an offline IM chat request is made at the IM server for establishing an offline connection... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070174402 - System and method for verifying delivery and integrity of electronic messages: A server transmits a message from a sender to a destination address. During transmission, the server and the destination address have a dialog constituting an attachment, via a particular one of SMTP and ESMTP protocols, concerning the message, the server and the destination address. The message passes through servers between... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070174398 - Systems and methods for communicating logic in e-mail messages: Computer program products apparatus, and methods for distributing encoded messages to one or more recipients. In one aspect, an electronic request is received using an e-mail protocol. The electronic request includes instructions for accessing one or more destinations corresponding to the recipients and logic for accessing data relating to the... Agent: Jones Day

20070174395 - Systems, methods, and media for communication with database client users: Systems, methods and media for communicating with a database client user are disclosed. Embodiments may include a database messaging system having a database server and one or more database clients. The database server may include a database messaging module, which may include a database administrator (DBA) interface module to receive... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070174408 - Filtering unnecessary chat artifacts from persistent chats: The present invention provides for the filtering of unnecessary chat artifacts (e.g., “small talk”) from persistent chats. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: sending an instant message; and selectively including the instant message in a persistent chat.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20070174404 - Instant message method to provide a delayed alarm/reminder: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for providing instant messaging users with an alarm to remind users of an event or to re-join an instant messaging chat. An instant message that includes a request for a user to currently participate in an event is received... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070174403 - Method and system for transaction communication: A method and system for transaction communication are described. Using transaction data stored on a transaction system, communication between two parties is facilitated by identifying the relevant parties to each other and providing, through the transaction system, an option for them to communicate via instant messaging. The content of any... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070174405 - Remote operation of instant messaging systems: A method for allowing remote operation of an instant messaging session is provided. A remote instant messaging client is selected from a list of remote instant messaging clients. User input, indicating an instant messaging command to be executed on the selected remote instant messaging client, is received. A request that... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070174407 - Scrolling chat for participation in multiple instant messaging conversations: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for enabling users to view a plurality of instant messaging chat conversations and respond quickly and easily a selected conversation, while minimizing the impact on the users' other activities. Users are also provided with the option of choosing which... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070174406 - Techniques for attesting to content: Techniques for attesting to content received from an author (sender) are provided. A sender's content is represented by a message digest. The message digest is signed by an identity service. The signed message digest represents an attestation as to the authenticity of the content from the sender. The sender transmits... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070174410 - Methods and systems for incorporating remote windows from disparate remote desktop environments into a local desktop environment: A system for incorporating remote windows from remote desktop environments into a local desktop environment comprises a first virtual channel coupled to a remote desktop environment provided by a virtual machine, a second virtual channel coupled to the remote desktop environment, and a local agent coupled to the remote desktop... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070174409 - Dynamic network fusion in wireless ad-hoc networks: The invention relates to networks having at least one slave terminal or device, and a master terminal or device connected thereto that controls the network and is arranged to instruct at least one slave terminal or device to exchange sub-network information with at least one other sub-network. On receipt of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070174411 - Apparatus and method for efficient communication of producer/consumer buffer status: An apparatus and method for efficient communication of producer/consumer buffer status are provided. With the apparatus and method, devices in a data processing system notify each other of updates to head and tail pointers of a shared buffer region when the devices perform operations on the shared buffer region using... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070174412 - Recording/transferring program, recording/transferring apparatus, and recording/transferring method: Disclosed herein is a recording/transferring program that causes an information processing apparatus to perform the steps of: generating programming information for programming the information processing apparatus to record a particular content; starting recording of the particular content onto a recording medium in accordance with the programming information; and automatically transferring,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070174413 - Method and system for improving the efficiency and ensuring the integrity of a data transfer: The present invention provides an improved method and system of improving the efficiency, and ensuring the integrity, of a data transfer in a serverless backup, or third party copy, system having one or more physical storage devices. The present invention provides improvements to the processing of serverless copy, or EXTENDED... Agent: Phillips Lytle LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070174423 - Apparatus control system and apparatus control method: An apparatus control system comprises a first and a second device located on a network, and a PC for transmitting a remote manipulation instruction to the first device. The first device executes a corresponding operation in accordance with the remote manipulation instruction from the PC, and redirects the remote manipulation... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070174420 - Caching of web service requests: A computer implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating a response to a web service request from a requester. In response to receiving a web service request, a web service controller calls a business logic interface associated with the request. The output of the business logic interface can... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070174426 - Content delivery and global traffic management network system: A content delivery and global traffic management network system provides a plurality of caching servers connected to a network. The caching servers host customer content that can be cached and stored, and respond to requests for Web content from clients. If the requested content does not exist in memory or... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070174427 - Data transfer method and scheduled transfer destination database forming method: A data transfer method used in such a case that data is transferred via a physical transfer system among a plurality of independently provided transmitter/receiver apparatuses. In the data transfer method, when data is transferred, a database of a transfer-scheduled transmitter/receiver is added to the data, and then the database-added... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070174418 - Display firmware upgrade without external devices: In a system for upgrading firmware of a display device (DD), a plurality of instructions are executable by a processor to upgrade the firmware. A graphics controller, which is coupled to the processor, generates the displays displayable on the DD. The DD is coupled to the graphics controller via a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070174417 - Integrated two-way communications between database client users and administrators: Systems, methods and media for two-way communication between database client users and administrators are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for communicating between database client users and administrators. Embodiments may include receiving a message request to send to one or more recipients, the message request including message content and an... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070174419 - Javascript error determination and reporting: A system for unobtrusively monitoring web browser execution of JavaScripts, and reporting errors and/or success of execution of the JavaScripts. Web pages are transmitted from a web page server to a web browser, the pages include at least two JavaScripts and one or more AJAX commands. The web browser executes... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070174422 - Local installation of remote software systems and methods: A method of downloading software to a user computer via a network includes, at a host computer system, receiving a request to download software to the user computer, storing at the host computer system identification information relating to the user computer, sending a download executable to the user computer, receiving... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070174425 - Method and apparatus for communicating with a user using video: A method is disclosed for communicating with at least one user using video via a data network, the method comprising accessing a user web interface, customizing the web interface and communicating with the least one user using video in the customized web interface.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070174424 - Method and apparatus for selectively installing webpage plug-in: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for selectively installing a webpage plug-in. The method includes: when there is a webpage plug-in in a webpage, determining whether the webpage plug-in has been shielded by a subscriber according to a list of shielded plug-ins that records information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070174415 - Method and mobile terminal for implementing vector animation interactive service on mobile phone browser: Disclosed is a method for implementing a vector animation interactive service on a mobile communication terminal browser. The method includes the steps of: a) requesting a supply of a WAP page through a wireless Internet; b) downloading a WML script constituting the WAP page; c) transferring the WML script to... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070174414 - Network terminal operated by downloadable operating system and operating method thereof: A network terminal operated by a downloadable operating system is provided. In the network terminal, a power supply supplies a power to an element of the network terminal, a nonvolatile storage medium stores a basic input/output system (BIOS) that automatically operates upon the supplying of the power, a controller is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070174416 - Spatially articulable interface and associated method of controlling an application framework: A mobile device is provided for imparting spatially articulable control to an application program. The device includes a display for presenting the GUI. A spatial detection unit is configured to detect spatial movement of the mobile device and provides an output responsive to the detected spatial movement. A data processor... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070174421 - System and method for generating screensavers: A system and method of generating screensavers. In one embodiment, a client may upload a plurality of images to a screensaver server. The server creates a screensaver application program using the uploaded images. In one embodiment, the screensaver application program compresses the uploaded images. The screensaver transmits the generated screensaver... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070174429 - Methods and servers for establishing a connection between a client system and a virtual machine hosting a requested computing environment: A method for providing access to a computing environment includes the step of receiving a request from a client system for an enumeration of available computing environments. Collected data regarding available computing environments are accessed. Accessed data are transmitted to a client system, the accessed data indicating to the client... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070174428 - Double-proxy remote data access system: A method for enabling access to a data resource, which is held on a file server (25) on a first local area network (LAN) (21a), by a client (28) on a second LAN (21b). A proxy receiver (48) on the second LAN (21b) intercepts a request for the data resource... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070174432 - Apparatus for and method of displaying communication log using gui image: An apparatus and method for displaying a communication log using a graphical user interface (GUI) image are provided. The apparatus for displaying a communication log using a GUI image includes a storage unit that stores information relating to events which have been generated through a mobile terminal as data, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174431 - Service notification device: A service notification device is provided. In some embodiments, the service notification device is attached to a beverage container, and various positions of the service notification device communicate to a server that service is desired. In some embodiments, publicity is generated through information that is situated on the service notification... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070174430 - Music creator for a client-server environment: A system and method are provided wherein a server based music creator is accessible by a client for the creation of composite audio files. In one example the method and system receives, from a remote client computer via a network connection, a play sequence for playing audio segments. Such a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070174433 - System and method for using a global translator to synchronize workspace elements across a network: A system transmits new workspace elements or new workspace element changes at a first memory store via an electronic network to a second memory store. The system includes a first memory store for storing workspace elements, a second memory store coupled via an electronic network to the first memory store... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070174435 - Configuration of lan hosts: A Local Area network is disclosed in which host specific configuration information, and in particular VSI, can be distributed. A network server is disclosed that is capable of supplying both network configuration information, including IP addresses, and VSI. This is used in addition to existing network servers. A relay agent... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070174434 - Method and apparatus for dynamically configuring hardware resources by a generic cpu management interface: A programmable network component for use in a plurality of network devices with a shared architecture, where the programmable network component includes an interface with an external processing unit to provide management interface control between the external processing unit and a network device. The programmable network component also includes a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070174447 - Device management scheduling based on trap mechanism: Performing device management scheduling based upon a trap mechanism is provided. A scheduling context, upon receipt from a server, is installed. The scheduling context may have at least one of a first element specifying information including at least one command for device management and a second element specifying a trap-based... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070174446 - Device management scheduling method and apparatus thereof: Device management commands to be executed within a terminal and conditions included within a scheduling context for executing such commands are provided to the terminal ahead of time. A server generates a scheduling context (or other type of scheduling information) that includes device management scheduled by the server to allow... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070174445 - Method for interacting with user and terminal thereof: The present specification related to a method for interacting with a user and terminal thereof. The present specification provides a terminal comprising a first module adapted to receive a scheduling context including scheduled device management from a server and to install the received scheduling context, and a second module adapted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070174441 - Printer: A printer is provided and includes an image forming device that prints out image data, plural communication interfaces, each including: a receiving unit that receives information on a search request information; and a transmitting unit that transmits information on a response to the search request, and a filter unit that... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070174444 - Terminal and method for performing device management scheduled based on threshold: Commands for device management to be executed within a terminal and threshold-based conditions for executing such commands included within a scheduling context are provided to the terminal ahead of time. Therefore, the terminal can perform the commands for device management, before errors occurs within the terminal since a value of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070174436 - Communication system, information processing system, information processing apparatus, tunnel management apparatus, information processing method, tunnel management method, and program: A tunnel managing apparatus is provided for managing a tunnel communication data for conducting a tunnel communication between a first data processing apparatus and a second data processing apparatus. According to the tunnel communication data, a sustain data for sustaining the tunnel communication is transmitted to the first data processing... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070174443 - Ims enabled attach procedure for lte: Method and apparatus for attaching an IMS enabled wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a long term evolution (LTE) wireless network. With one attach request, the WTRU registers and authenticates itself to the network, obtains an IP address allocation, and SIP registration.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070174439 - Interoperable management of application servers: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing interoperable management of application servers. These mechanisms and methods can enable a software developer to create client applications using one or more programming systems, i.e., .NET, C++, VISUAL C++, etc. that can discover and interact with management resources,... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070174442 - Method and system for purging content from a content delivery network: A content file purge mechanism for a content delivery network (CDN) is described. A Web-enabled portal is used by CDN customers to enter purge requests securely. A purge request identifies one or more content files to be purged. The purge request is pushed over a secure link from the portal... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070174437 - Method for managing and monitoring the operation of a plurality of distributed hardware and/or software systems that are integrated into at least one communications network, and system for carrying out the method: A method for managing and monitoring the operation of several distributed hardware and/or software systems that are integrated into at least one communications network. A central programming element, which is stored in a data processing device, processes system-related data that are contained in the data processing device or that have... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070174438 - Notification system: A system for receiving and normalizing notification events from assets or equipment located at various sites within an enterprise is disclosed. The system includes receiving a notification, identifying the protocol used by the equipment sending the notification, and converting the notification to a normalized format. The system allows notifications from... Agent: Sean D. Solberg Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20070174440 - Systems and methods for data mining and interactive presentation of same: A data mining and presentation system including a first processor for obtaining data of interest to a user from one or more data sources. The first processor designed to receive one or more user specified parameters in connection with the data, and in communication with the data sources via a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070174451 - Distributed networked data acquisition device: A distributed networked data acquisition system having distributed networked data acquisition devices based on embedded Linux development platform having an ARM9 CPU is proposed. The system is defined as one or more distributed networked data acquisition devices together with a host. The host could dynamically display data and also coordinate... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070174450 - System and method for distributing and monitoring emails: A method for distributing and monitoring emails is provided. The method includes the steps of: obtaining computer system time; and performing one or more of the following services according to the computer system time: performing email collecting service; performing error checking service; performing monitoring service; and performing email distributing service.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070174449 - Method and system for identifying potential adverse network conditions: A method and system for identifying potential adverse network conditions, the method including monitoring for events in the network, saving data indicative of the events, responding to an adverse network condition by electronically searching the events preceding the adverse network condition for patterns, and storing data indicative of the patterns... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070174448 - Method and system for notifying customers of transaction opportunities: A standalone notification system, including a notification server which generates electronic messages for alerting customers of potentially fraudulent activity on one or more of their financial accounts. Alternatively, or in addition thereto, the notification system may be used to forward transaction code(s) to customers for verification of a request for... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070174453 - Relevance clause for computed relevance messaging: The invention disclosed herein enables a collection of computers and associated communications infrastructure to offer a new communications process which allows information providers to broadcast information to a population of information consumers. The information may be targeted to those consumers who have a precisely formulated need for the information. This... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070174452 - System and method for monitoring informational resources: A system and method are provided to monitor informational resources, such as websites. A plurality of host units support one or more informational resources accessible over a network, such as the Internet. A plurality of monitoring units located on a distributed computer system are coordinated to access the network and... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070174457 - Disk array system and fault information control method: A disk array system in accordance with the present invention comprises: a plurality of storage devices in which data is stored; a storage device control unit that controls storage of data in the plurality of storage devices; a connection unit connected to the storage device control unit; a first communication... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070174455 - Image processing apparatus which executes operations by receiving control information from external devices such as personal computers, interface information disclosing program embodied in a computer readable recording medium, and interface information di: To improve a processing efficiency of operations executed in response to external controls, an MFP includes an operation processing element capable of executing multiple types of operations, an interface (I/F) information table storage element which stores an I/F information table where each piece of I/F information of multiple pieces of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070174454 - Method and apparatus for accessing web services and url resources for both primary and shared users over a reverse tunnel mechanism: A method and apparatus for accessing Web services and URL resources for both primary and shared users over a reverse tunnel mechanism are provided. Current limitations on accessing Web services and URL resources located behind firewalls or otherwise made secure and largely inaccessible are overcome through a novel use of... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070174456 - Security system for replicated storage devices on computer networks: Through associating each data partition within a replicated storage domain of networked storage devices with one of multiple secret keys shared with a file manager, a credential is issued from the file manager to a client requesting access to a partition. The credential includes a network address for the partition... Agent: Robert H. Frantz

20070174462 - Reporting information to a network: For achieving device management, the terminal may select certain command execution results and transmit such to the network instead of always sending all command execution results. Accordingly, resources of the terminal and radio communication resources can be more efficiently utilized when compared to previously used device management procedures. Furthermore, since... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070174461 - Accessing distributed services in a network: A set of multiple servers in which each server (a) provides a service having a name or other identifier, and for which each server (b) has a network address that differs from the network addresses of the other servers in the set, and (c) is co-located with a resolution mechanism... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070174459 - Device and method for allocating separate bandwidths to multiple virtual users: A device and method of designating a range of virtual IP addresses, and allocating to such addresses separate bandwidths over which virtual users may connect to a virtual network.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070174463 - Managed object replication and delivery: A method, system and computer program product for managed object replication and delivery redirects, directly or indirectly, a client's request for an object that is not available at a best or optimal handling edge server of a network to a parent server that has the requested object. So, where the... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070174460 - Method and system for on demand weighted proportional distribution of enterprise allocations: Discloses are a method of and system for allocating resources in an enterprise. The method comprises the steps of identifying a number of areas of the enterprise that need resources, and determining an initial allocation of resources to each of said areas. The method comprises the further steps of establishing... Agent: Steven Fischman, Esq. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070174458 - Method for modeling on-demand free pool of resources: The invention comprises a computer-implemented process for managing computing resources provided to customers in an on-demand data center. The process comprises: providing a shared computing environment; providing to each customer one or more logical partitions of computing resources within the shared computing environment; allocating at least one processing engine to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070174468 - Communication handling: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of handling a communication sent to a destination terminal comprising receiving the communication and an associated communication handling package, determining whether the handling package can be trusted; and where it is so determined, processing the communication in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070174467 - Communications network: A distributed communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of user devices, wherein each node comprises: a communications device for establishing bi-directional wireless communication with at least one user device, a communications device for establishing bi-directional communication with at least one other node; and a data processor... Agent: Steven Fischman Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070174470 - Device with cache command forwarding: In a bridge, a cache module is operable on receipt of a message pertaining to a write or other cacheable command from an initiator device to process the command so as to cause a suitable command to be passed to the relevant target device and to respond immediately to the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070174465 - Method and apparatus for a node to determine a proper duty cycle within an adhoc network: A method and apparatus for determining a node's proper duty cycle is provided herein. All nodes (500) within a network (100) will interactively switch duty-cycles based on a number of hops a device is from a personal area network coordinator PNC. Changing duty cycles based on a number of hops... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070174469 - Method and data processing system for intercepting communication between a client and a service: A method and data processing system for intercepting communication between a user and a service. An authentication component receives, from the user, a user request directed to the service. The authentication component adds a user-specific token to the user request to generate a tokenized request. The tokenized request includes the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070174464 - Method of calling pc customer terminal transmitting its number in the media gateway control protocol: A method for a calling PCC transmitting its number includes the calling PCC issuing a RestartInProgress command to an One Name Link You (ONLY) server, and carrying in the EndPointId parameter of the RestartInProgress command a calling PCC number of the calling PCC for establishing a connection with the ONLY... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070174466 - System for providing a communication interface: A system, providing a communication interface, is provided. The system includes an embedded device and a host. The embedded device includes an Ethernet controller that is connected to a communication bus on the host. The host includes device drivers of the Ethernet controller. Therefore, no special host-side software is required... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070174472 - Network security system and method: In a security system for network communications with client devices, each client device has a communication module for communicating with at least one server over a network, a data storage module for storing one or more covert data values of one or more operational events at the client device, and... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070174471 - Secure, continous, proxy-optimized, device-to-device data download reception system and method of use: The current invention comprises a digital Data Download Reception unit (DDR unit) used to download data files over an electronic network (or equivalent) and the method for using the DDR unit system for delivering on-demand or near on-demand multimedia services.... Agent: Iptv Systems, LLC

20070174475 - Method and apparatus for local ip address translation: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for requesting a page from a server across a network data processing system. The page is requested a first time from a client application in the data processing system in which the page is requested using a domain name. An Internet Protocol address for... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070174473 - Method of broadband access device for controlling a dhcp relay user: The present invention discloses a method of broadband access device for controlling a DHCP relay user, which method comprises modifying protocol fields in all of DHCP messages interacted between a DHCP relay and a DHCP client and a DHCP server during initiation phase of the DHCP interaction at Application Layer... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070174474 - System and method for providing feedback and forward transmission for remote interaction in rich media applications: A system and method for providing feedback formats and transport protocol extensions to support interactivity between a rich media client and a rich media server. The present invention provides for feedback formats and protocol extensions for protocols such as SMS, MMS, HTTP and RTSP. These feedback formats and protocol extensions... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070174477 - Communication profiles for integrated database messaging system: Systems, methods and media for providing communication profiles for an integrated database messaging system are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving from a user of the database messaging system a request for one or more profiles and determining one or more profiles associated based on the attributes of... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070174478 - Method of and apparatus for transmitting universal plug and play audio/video stream: A method of and an apparatus for transmitting a universal plug and play audio/video (UPnP-AV) stream is disclosed, which transmits a media stream from a media server to an media renderer, using an integrated protocol which combines an universal plug and play (UPNP) audio/video (AV) protocol and a residential Ethernet... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174476 - Streaming content navigation: Streaming content navigation techniques are described. In an implementation, techniques are described to provide a non-modal message when navigation is attempted to a stream of content that is not permitted for consumption by a client device. In another implementation, techniques are described to provide an alternate content stream when sequential... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070174480 - Method and system for delivering data over a network: This invention describes a new method and system for delivering data over a network to a large number of clients, which may be suitable for building large-scale Video-on-Demand (VOD) systems. In current VOD systems, the client may suffer from a long latency before starting to receive the requested data that... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070174479 - Systems and methods for implementing host-based security in a computer network: A network node is disclosed. The network node includes a host processor. The network node also includes an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a hardware portion configured to perform a first set of TCP acceleration tasks that require a first speed level. The integrated circuit also includes a network... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070174484 - Apparatus and method for high performance checkpointing and rollback of network operations: An improved method and apparatus is provided for checkpointing and rollback of network operations. In one embodiment the method includes varying the checkpoint interval in response to a packet deferred timer and buffering data packets that would affect the states of other network devices in a deferred packets queue. The... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20070174485 - Content distribution via keys: Techniques for distributing content over a network via keys are provided. A key is associated with a particular destination or with a particular piece of content. A path management service derives and selectively communicates portions of a network path for moving the content to a destination on the basis of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070174481 - Method of optionally transferring information: A method of rapidly sending large volumes of information to one or more personal computers from a database containing information. A personal computer is connected to the database via a first communication network, such as the Internet, to a server connected with the database to allow a user to request... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20070174483 - Methods and apparatus for implementing protection for multicast services: A router in a label-switching network sets up one or more backup paths to forward multicast data traffic in the event of a failure. Network failures include link failures and node failures. If a link failure occurs, a given router in a respective label-switching network can forward multicast data traffic... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070174482 - Table format data processing method and table format data processing: There is provided a document format definition method capable of automatic data input/output to/from another document format or data file with a high visibility and an easy document format definition operation even in a document format having a derivative area as a second data description area in a single cell.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070174490 - System and methods for managing content in pre-existing mobile applications: Methods and systems for managing distribution and retrieval of data (for example advertising content and viewing statistics) and insertion of control logic (for example display of advertising content) into pre-existing mobile applications. In some arrangements the method includes analyzing the pre-existing application in the context of the target platform and... Agent: James E. Eakin

20070174489 - Image distribution system and client terminal and control method thereof: When a viewer resizes an image window while displaying image data distributed from a server on the image window of a client terminal, the client terminal notifies the server of the size of the image window after resizing. The server resizes the image data so that an image has the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070174487 - Method, system, and computer program product for synchronizing information within a global computer network: In one embodiment, at least one first information handling system of a user receives an excerpt of information associated with the user. In response to the excerpt, the first information handling system automatically translates the excerpt into an XML format, so that the translated excerpt is compatible for operation with... Agent: Davis Law Group, P.C.

20070174488 - Methods and apparatus for web content transformation and delivery: In a client, a system receives a set of transformation functions for use in transforming a first content, requests the first content from a gateway, and receives the first content from the gateway, including an invocation of at least one transformation function maintained on the client. The system invokes the... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070174491 - Selectively forced redirection of network traffic: Techniques for redirecting a client request. The client request is received at a first server. The first server forwards the client request to a second server. The first server receives a result message from the second server. The first server identifies, in the result message, references to resources of the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070174486 - System and method for monitoring multiple online resources in different formats: A system and method for monitoring multiple online resources in different formats includes a format transformer, an analytic parser, and a file comparator. The format transformer converts each monitored online resources to a strict formatted file. An analytic parser identifies relevant data within each of the strict formatted files. A... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070174492 - Passive network tap for tapping network data: A passive full-duplex bidirectional ZPL tap includes first and second network ports and first and second tap ports. A passive signal separator is configured to receive a data stream from at least one of the first or second network port and pass through the data stream and a first signal... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070168412 - Distributed multi-nodal voice/data communication: The invention comprises systems and methods of creating and maintaining a communications network. It includes a wearable system, a deployable system, an array of physiological sensors, an array of environmental sensors, and the integration of these into a multi-nodal voice and data communication system. The primary communications network is composed... Agent: Christine M. Kuta Kuta Intellectual Property Law LLC

20070168416 - Controlling autonomous message transmission: In an autonomous message transmission control system and method, a network management system including a management server stores whether an autonomous message is allowed to be received by at least one management client connected to a network element transmitting the autonomous message corresponding to a predetermined event when the event... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070168417 - Dynamic event server subsystem utilizing session initiation protocol: A server subsystem is presented for mobile communication that provides for efficient and logical movement between applications on different servers. Multiple applications may be used simultaneously and interactively using the server system presented herein.... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

20070168415 - Music performance system, music stations synchronized with one another and computer program used therein: A music performance system includes plural music stations communicable through a communication network and a server computer, and music data codes, which express a performance on one of the music stations, are transmitted to another music station through a packet switching: in order to make the original performance synchronized with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070168414 - Managing advertising devices: In one general aspect, a request to determine a status of a first of a plurality of advertising devices is received. The advertising devices are spatially separated. Operating conditions of the first advertising device are identified. The status of the first advertising device is determined based, at least in part,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070168413 - Visualization and control techniques for multimedia digital content: A system for previewing multimedia content (video, audio, and/or text data). In this connection, a conceptual framework is introduced that defines basic mechanisms for simulating a “leafing through” of digital content (e.g. the content of an electronic book, a digital video or audio file), comparable to the process of leafing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070168422 - Method and system for providing selective media data in multimedia conference service: In a method and system for providing selective media data in a multimedia conference service, a selective media data provision request of a participant who wants to be selectively provided with media data is transmitted to a media server using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and media data selected or converted... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070168423 - Video conferencing using white board: In a video conference system and method, a first terminal and second through Nth terminals maintain a session for a conference. The first terminal prevents an input of further information to the white board by the second through Nth terminals during a set time period from an input of information... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070168425 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium for storing the program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus capable of exchanging information with another apparatus. The apparatus includes: a unit for carrying out a communication with the other apparatus; a unit for acquiring information on a state of a communication with the other apparatus carried out by the communication unit; and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070168420 - Method and apparatus for providing customized subscription data: A method and system are described for providing customized subscription data. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method is described for receiving a subscription request for a tuple via a publish/subscribe protocol from a subscriber, and sending a first message related to the subscription request to a publisher capable of... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070168421 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for decentralized processing of signaling messages in a multi-application processing environment: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for decentralized triggerless processing of signaling messages in a multi-application processing environment. According to one method, a signaling message is received at a screening module. At least one application to perform message processing on the signaling message is determined from a screening... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070168426 - Storing and accessing media files: A content storage and communication system is claimed. The system includes at least one local network at first physical premises. The system includes at least one audio-video storage device in communication with the local network. The audio-video storage device is configured for storing at least one media file, which includes... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070168424 - System and method for providing a presence service: A system and method including registering state information capable of being published by an Event Publication Agent (EPA) using a Media Feature Tag according to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP); sending a Publication Rule for target state information from a Ruler to an associated EPA; routing the Publication Rule to the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070168419 - System, method, and article of manufacture for a network media channel: This invention discloses a network media channel that can be used by the subscribers of the channel to share media files based on ad-hoc specifications. Temporal, spatial, channel identity and mask components, or any combination thereof, are among the specifications that subscribers can use to create ad-hoc specifications. A transmitting... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael M. Ahmadshahi

20070168418 - Web page to cellular phone - contact information messaging system: The present invention relates to management of contact information; more specifically to means and methods of transmitting contact information published in a web page directly to one or more communication devices such as cellular phones. According to another aspect, the present invention relates to means and methods of advertisement of... Agent: Nitesh Ratnakar

20070168429 - Strategies for sending content to a target device: A strategy is described for forwarding content accessed using a first device to a second device. For instance, the first device can comprise a personal computer and the second device can comprise a mobile telephone. The strategy employs general purpose content-forwarding (CF) functionality. Different providers of content can rely on... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070168428 - Communications system with direct access mailbox: A communication system (1) in which a user (A) can elect to leave a message directly in the mailbox (11a) of another user (B) without calling or disturbing user (B). A store (database 7) is generated and maintained which identifies those users who are allowed direct access to the mailbox... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070168430 - Content-based dynamic email prioritizer: An email organizer operates in conjunction with an email system (20) and a natural language processor (42, 44). An action deadline detector (50) detects action deadlines contained in email messages (30) based on syntactic information about the email messages provided by the natural language processor. A scorer (56) assigns priority... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070168437 - Electronic messaging management method and related devices: The present invention relates to a method for managing Electronic messages and a related system wherein at least one electronic message is forwarded from an electronic messaging source of a plurality of electronic messaging sources towards at least one terminal of a at least one corresponding user of a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070168434 - Email application smart paste entry feature: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for saving information from an email message. The information is selected from the email message to form selected information. The selected information and header information is saved in the email message. The header information is designated through a user preference.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168427 - Messaging system and method: A messaging system and method are described. The system includes acquisition means for acquiring audio and/or video data, e.g. microphones and cameras. The system further comprises database means (16). In the database (16), sets (32, 34, 36) of situational information (32a, 34a, 36a) and associated messaging information (32b, 34b, 36b)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070168435 - Method for archiving native email: A method of archiving email that includes receiving an email on an email server, determining whether to archive the email based upon received archive control commands and then archiving the a copy of the email in native format in a pre-designated file system on the email server. The method further... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070168438 - Method for managing electronic information, the related user terminal and the related information source: The present invention relates to a method for managing electronic information and related devices where electronic information is forwarded from at least one electronic information source of a plurality of electronic information sources towards at least one terminal of at least one corresponding user of a plurality of terminals of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070168431 - Multi-file transfer via instant messaging: The present invention provides multi-file transfer via instant messaging. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: selecting a plurality of files to be transferred; generating a collection descriptor describing the files; sending an instant message with a collection reference that includes the collection descriptor to... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070168439 - Remote access and retrieval of electronic files: A system and methods for remotely accessing, retrieving, and transmitting data offering remote data management control and verification of data delivery is provided. In an illustrative implementation, the present invention comprises a computing application operating on at least one computer server that cooperates with at least one communications network to... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070168433 - System and method for managing an instant messaging contact list: A method and system for managing an instant messaging contact list. The method includes determining if at least one group member of the instant messaging contact list is active. A timestamp is assigned to the group member based on a determination of activity. It is determined whether the group member... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070168436 - System and method for supplying electronic messages: A system and method are provided for supplying electronic messages to a message recipient. The system includes a message server configured to distribute electronic messages. A plurality of electronic messages can be stored on the message server, and the plurality of electronic messages include video output for the message recipient.... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070168432 - Use of service identifiers to authenticate the originator of an electronic message: A system and method for authenticating communication from a message originator to a user is provided. An electronic message is identified as intended for a user. A service identifier associated with the user is retrieved from a database and inserted into a subject field or the body of the electronic... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070168441 - Apparatus, system, and method for receiving digital instructions at devices sharing an identity: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for receiving digital instructions at devices or controllers sharing an identity. A first controller receives a digital instruction instance over a communications medium. The digital instruction instance maybe a firmware instance. The first controller has ownership of the communications medium and shares the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070168440 - Bandwidth-saving discovery on dual-stack upnp devices: A dual-stack UPnP-compliant device supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The device uses the SSDP protocol for discovery based on IP multicasting. The device sends SSDP query packets that comprise an indication that the device supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The indication is accommodated in an option field of the packet.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070168446 - Dynamically mapping chat session invitation history: A method, system, and program are provided for dynamically mapping chat session invitation history. A chat controller for facilitating a chat session enables chat participants to invite additional users to join in the chat session. The chat controller dynamically generates a mapping of the chat participants to graphically represent a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070168451 - Event notification system and method: A technique for user notification involves modifying a title associated with a process to include information about an event that calls for user notification. A method according to the technique may include running a process, processing an event, generating a string of characters that includes information associated with the event,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070168448 - Identifying and displaying relevant shared entities in an instant messaging system: An apparatus, program product and/or method identify relevant shared entities and/or display shared entities in an instant messaging system. In particular, entities such as files, images, videos, e-mails, links, bookmarks, databases, transcripts of other instant messages, etc. that are shared between users participating in an instant message session may be... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070168449 - Instant messaging architecture and system for interoperability and presence management: A computer network system establishes an instant messaging (IM) session between a first user registered with a first ISP (ISP) and at least one user registered with a second ISP when the two ISPs operate using different IM protocols. The ISPs each contain a Local IM server connected to each... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070168442 - Method and apparatus for managing a system using an instant messaging personality: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to receive a message at an instant messaging interface for the management system from an instant messaging client. The message is translated by the instant messaging interface to produce a received command in a format recognized by the management system.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168445 - Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving conversations in an instant messaging system: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to detect an indication that a conversation between users in an instant messaging system should be saved. Endpoints and keyword data are extracted from the conversation in response to detecting the indication. An abstract generating from the endpoints and keyword... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168444 - Method for automatically initiating an instant messaging chat session based on a calendar entry: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for automatically initiating an instant messaging (IM) chat session based on a calendar entry. A user's IM client receives instructions to initiate an IM chat session based on a scheduled entry in the calendaring system. These instructions may be... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168447 - Method of scheduling calendar entries via an instant messaging interface: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for scheduling calendaring entries within the context of an instant messaging client. The instant messaging client receives input from a user to schedule an instant messaging chat session with one or more invitees, wherein the one or more invitees... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168450 - Server-initiated language translation of an instant message based on identifying language attributes of sending and receiving users: Language translation of instant messages between a sending party and a destination party is automatically performed, based on the instant messaging system automatically determining the respective language preferences of the sending and receiving parties. The instant messaging system automatically determines the respective language preferences based on existing subscriber profile attributes... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070168443 - System and method for managing an instant messaging contact list: A method and system of managing an instant messaging contact list. A contact list is provided for each member of a user group. A status update is received relating to a target member. A determination is made whether the target member is contained on at least one user group member's... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070168453 - Function managing apparatus: A function managing apparatus allows a user to avoid a fault likely to occur in a user terminal before a new function is installed on the user terminal. A function managing apparatus for communicating with a user terminal is provided. Specifically, the function managing apparatus includes a receiving unit, predicting... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070168452 - Method of processing data, a network analyser card, a host and an intrusion detection system: The present invention relates to a method of processing data. The method includes receiving data from a network link; replicating said data no board a network analyser card to produce at least two editions of the received data; and writing said editions of the received data to an area of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070168454 - System and method for host-to-host communication: A system and method for host-to-host communication are provided in the present invention. The system may include a first host of at least one consumer application, the host may be arranged to allow the consumer to communicate with a second consumer coupled with a second host. The system may further... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070168462 - Online production and media coordination portal/system for telephone ringback messages and digital media content: The Invention is a multi-faceted web-based interface that includes such functional components as ringback message and other DMC sub-type production, ringback message and other DMC sub-type distribution, ringback subscriber, ringback caller, and other DMC sub-type user data evaluation, ringback and other DMC sub-type message valuation, single point online interface for... Agent: Keith Frantz

20070168460 - Service evaluation method, system, and computer program product: In order to provide information for making a decision when using composite services, there are provided means for calculating evaluation of combinations of services and means for visualizing the evaluations are provided. For this purpose, a method applied to a system having storage means includes receiving a selection of a... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070168457 - Apparatus and method for addressing computer-related problems: Techniques are provided for addressing a problem pertaining to a computer of a user. In an exemplary method, the obtaining of a problem statement associated with the problem pertaining to the computer of the user is facilitated. This can be carried out via speech over a telephony connection. The establishment... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070168459 - Data processing apparatus: An apparatus to output a large variety of input data in a desired form is provided. A file of data to be output is specified from among data accumulated in a hard disk device in a data processing apparatus and an output condition is specified. It is determined whether the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070168455 - Forensics tool for examination and recovery of computer data: The present invention concerns an electronic forensic tool for conducting electronic discovery and computer forensic analysis. The present invention allows a non-technical person such as a non-forensic expert to conduct electronic discovery and thereby obviate the need for an expert in many situations. The present invention allows for electronic discovery... Agent: John J. Yim, Esq.

20070168458 - Remote access to local network: For enabling a remote access to a local network via a remote access device of the local network, a mobile device of the local network assembles and provides configuration settings for the remote access. The remote access device receives the configuration settings from the mobile device and enables a remote... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070168461 - Syndicating surgical data in a healthcare environment: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for syndication and management of structured and unstructured data to assist institutional healthcare delivery, healthcare providers' practices, healthcare providers' group practices, collaborative academic research and decision making in healthcare, including through the utilization of medical devices and healthcare pools.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070168463 - System and method for sharing digital media content: A system and method for sharing digital content are provided. A system and method of the present disclosure enable a user to automatically list their media content and also enable automatic placement of the content onto a community web site that the user is participating in. The system and method... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070168456 - Two-way video player transmission system: A two-way video player transmission system includes a video player and at least one client. The video player has a disk reader to read and display the video information on a display. The video player is also operative to transmit sound, text or file to the client in a peer-to-peer... Agent: Hdsl

20070168466 - Managed quality of service using a web server smart agent: Systems and methods are described for effectively managing the quality of service provided to subscribers in a shared network on a per-application, per-user basis. A system QoS proxy, sitting on a subscriber's computing device or on a web content server, captures network calls made by an application for a subscriber... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070168464 - System for configuring a data exchange and format conversion system: A system automatically configures a data exchange system used for exchanging data between different computer systems using different data formats. The system includes an input processor for receiving an input message having a first data format employed by a particular message source and a configuration processor. The configuration processor parses... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070168465 - Web page optimization systems: This invention relates to providing a system for improved web page generation and display. More particularly this invention relates to providing a system for dynamically creating web pages on demand, which are can be indexed by Internet-based search engine indexing programs, from contents stored in one or more databases. Further,... Agent: Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd

20070168468 - Method and apparatus for multiple audio connections over networks: A communication terminal, communication method and communication system is particularly suited for audio communications and applications such as an intercom. Multiple communication terminals may reside on a network and idle in a server mode. When communications are initiated in response to a trigger by switching a communication terminal from a... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20070168467 - Method and system for providing remote access to baggage scanned images: A remote access security network is provided that comprises a local terminal receiving scan data representative of objects scanned during a security check. An enterprise server communicates with the local terminal. The enterprise server processes the scan data to form a displayable image and provides remote access to the displayable... Agent: Ipci Consultants

20070168469 - Server side search with multi-word word wheeling and wildcard expansion: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that expand input data. An interface can obtain input data and a wildcard insertion component can modify the input data to include at least one implicit wildcard inserted at an end of each intended word. Additionally, an expansion component can generate a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070168470 - Storage apparatus and control method for the same, and computer program product: A storage apparatus and a method for controlling the same, and a computer program product, that can simplify the storage apparatus settings required whenever a storage apparatus is introduced or a new host system is added. With a storage apparatus configured to detect a connection from a new host system... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070168472 - Call center gui: xml converter: The present disclosure provides a system, method, and computer-readable medium for accessing a feature version at an Internet Protocol (IP) phone. An Extensible Markup Language (XML) code is activated at the IP Phone. A feature selection selected at the IP Phone is associating to a version of the feature using... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070168475 - Dynamic services blade and method: A dynamic services blade which is embedded in a data path includes a router. The blade includes a general computer platform combined with the router to host the services. The blade includes a container in which the router and the computer are disposed. A method for hosting services. The method... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20070168477 - Efficient software download to configurable communication device: An efficient software download to a configurable communication device is disclosed herein. The method of efficiently downloading software begins with a step of receiving a request to configure a communication device to run a communication application. The communication device being configured has a plurality of function blocks with a fixed... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070168474 - Method and system for controlling the future behavior of devices at a remote location: A method and system for enabling users to remotely activate a device using a router. The router may be accessed by communication over one or more networks including, but not limited to, the internet, wireless networks, cable networks, etc. A user accesses an emitter of the user's router and, using... Agent: Oliver W. Gamble

20070168473 - Method for a user-specific configuration of a computer from a group of prepared computers: Installation and configuration of user-specific software and a computer system is performed such that individual computers in a group is prepared by transmitting the installation packages for a predetermined set of software products and a configuration program to the individual computers. In response to a computer being started for the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070168471 - Method for providing network resources: A method of providing network resources for performing a target task includes determining a set of network accessible devices located at a location where the target task is to be accomplished and determining required user interface input/output hardware capabilities needed to accomplish the target task. The method further includes determining... Agent: Frank C. Nicholas Cardinal Law Group

20070168476 - Network storage appliance with integrated redundant servers and storage controllers: A network storage appliance includes a chassis, enclosing a storage controller and first and second servers. The storage controller has first and second I/O ports for coupling to first and second I/O links. The storage controller controls a plurality of physical disk drives and presents the plurality of physical disk... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070168478 - System and method for transferring a computing environment between computers of dissimilar configurations: A system and method for migrating a computer to another computer having dissimilar hardware, wherein a preparation stage for the transfer of a disk image between the origin and target computer comprise analyzing the origin computer and modifying certain parameters therein while operating under its native operating system. After the... Agent: Saltamar Innovations

20070168490 - Distributed web publishing: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for publishing content over a network. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes an instant messaging module configured to generate a request for creation of a base uniform resource... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070168491 - Method for establishing mutual talking feature on webpage: A method for establishing mutual talking feature on webpage includes a step of entering, a step of establishing a communication and a step of talking. The user enters a webpage having an icon and clicks the icon to activate a communication software so as to establish a line between the... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070168489 - System and method for simulating home network: A system and method are provided for simulating a home network, in which elements of the home network are implemented by software even before the home network is equipped with all necessary elements, so that a user can simulate the home network through a graphical user interface. The system includes:... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070168485 - Computer system, method and software for establishing, managing, evaluating, classifying and storing on a server a set of server client digital media files under direct control of server client for delivery to third parties: The present invention provides a network multi-theater forum and server management system, comprising a computer system loaded with at least one software module having logic that permits network server clients to individually collect, store, manage, and directly control computer digital media files in their theater area on the server management... Agent: J G Mullins

20070168487 - Computer system, method and software for managing, evaluating, classifying and storing on a server a set of productivity and games software files under server client control for delivery to third parties: The present invention provides a network multi-channel games and software hosting forum and server management system, comprising a computer system loaded with at least one software module having logic that permits network server clients to individually collect, store, manage, and directly control computer games and software files in their server... Agent: J G Mullins

20070168492 - Equipment maintenance assisting method and equipment maintenance assisting server: The system includes: an equipment data recording block 313 for recording one or more than one equipment information; a profile recording block 312 for storing a customer profile describing a customer request; an analysis block 311 for analyzing the equipment data recorded in the equipment data recording block 313, according... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070168480 - Interactive robot creation: Interactive robot (BOT) creation is described. A BOT is an automated computer program implemented on a presence-based network, such as an instant messaging (IM) network or voice over IP (VoIP) network. The BOT is implemented to interact with a user via a direct two-way communication to gather data. The data... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070168484 - Method for evolving detectors to detect malign behavior in an artificial immune system: A system, apparatus, and method are directed to evolving detectors in an Artificial Immune System for use in detecting unauthorized computing activities. In one embodiment, a population of detectors is generated with a matching value and expectation value of zero. The detectors are then compared to logged fragments of system... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070168482 - Multiple carrier resource management: In one embodiment, a transmission resource for transmitting data from a number of applications in a multiple carrier communication system is managed. In this embodiment, an aggregate transmission resource available to the number of applications is determined, and the determined aggregated transmission resource is distributed to each carrier based on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070168479 - Semantic interface for publishing a web service to and discovering a web service from a web service registry: A system and method for publishing a web service to a web service registry retrieving a web service description. A schema associated with the web service description is acquired, and publication metadata relating to the web service is extracted from the schema. A web service registry publication request is generated... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070168486 - Software architecture system and method for operating an appliance exposing key press functionality to a network: A network control system comprising a software operating layer responsive to a plurality of function calls, a physical user interface capable of generating directly at least some of the function calls, and a virtual user interface configured to invoke at least some of the function calls.... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20070168483 - System and method for expiring advertisement spaces in syndicated feeds: A system and method for managing advertisements in a syndicated feed is described. One embodiment includes a method for expiring an advertisement space in a feed. This method includes the following actions: receiving a data item associated with a feed from a publisher; determining whether an advertisement space should be... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070168481 - Upgradeable persistent virtual storage: A method to provide at least one of a scalable, a replaceable, and an upgradeable device via remote access solution virtual media includes emulating a physical plug-and-play universal serial bus device to a managed host server system as a virtual media device using firmware in a service processor and a... Agent: Randall C. Furlong Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070168488 - Working information processing system, device, method, and computer program: A working information generation device (10) generates and outputs working information including generation device information for each predetermined time with different contents. Next, the working information outputted is acquired by a working information acquisition device (20). The acquisition device information is added to the working information so as to obtain... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070168503 - Method and apparatus for testing ubiquitous service or device using uniform object model: An apparatus and method for testing a ubiquitous service or a ubiquitous device using a uniform object model are provided. Because a virtual ubiquitous environment is constructed with devices, services, users, layouts, and the like, physical construction of the ubiquitous environment to test services or devices is not needed. Therefore,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070168505 - Performance monitoring in a network: Real time status changes of network elements in a network are reported and correlated, to help in eliminating events that are not of interest and to annotate or generate events that provide more useful information to the network operator. The result of the correlation can also be used to intelligently... Agent: Mr. Robert L. Stock

20070168497 - Apparatus and method for signaling by and to a computer system user: Apparatus, methods and program products by which the user of a computer system is notified of the desirability or urgency of initiating an interval during which the user leaves the system idle to permit some communication or update from a network with which the system is in communication.... Agent: Lenovo (us)IPLaw

20070168496 - Application server external resource monitor: A backend server process monitor operates application servers accessing resources on backend servers. The monitor tracks failures, latency and errors at an interval. A method includes monitoring a plurality of resource requests from the application sever to a backend server and determining whether each of the plurality of resource requests... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070168499 - Configurable modular networking system and method thereof: In one embodiment according to the principle of this present invention, a communication IC embeds a plurality of network function modules; at least one hardware module interface provides a plurality of interfaces where a plurality of hardware modules can be coupled, said hardware modules comprise secret keys corresponding to their... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20070168493 - Distributed monitoring of desired configurations using rules: A method and system for monitoring configuration information of computing devices is provided. The monitoring system generates a desired configuration monitor (“DCM”) document for each computing device that is to have its configuration monitored. The DCM document specifies configuration settings to be monitored along with rules that specify how to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070168502 - Dynamically exchanging computer user's context: Techniques for providing information about a current state modeled with multiple attributes is described. The providing of information can include receiving from a first source an indication of an ability to supply values for one of the state attributes of the modeled current state, and supplying to a client a... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070168500 - Enterprise service availability through identity preservation: Systems and methods are described for service availability that provides automated recovery of server service in a timely and application intelligent manner, maintaining application consistency and integrity, while preserving server identity. The systems and methods, referred to herein as a Service Preservation System (SPS), manage complete recovery of server data... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070168501 - Method and system for delivering behavior modification information over a network: This invention features a method of delivering information over one or more information delivery networks, the method including: monitoring the actions of a user on the one or more networks to obtain observed user data relating to a desired behavior modification; obtaining user supplied data relating to the desired behavior... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska Intellectual Property Law Attorneys

20070168494 - Method and system for on-line performance modeling using inference for real production it systems: A system and method for performance modeling for an information technology (IT) system having a server(s) for performing a number of types of transactions includes receiving data for system topology and transaction flows and receiving performance measurement data for the IT system. The measurement data is clustered into multiple regimes... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto. P.C. Suit 128

20070168506 - Method and system for proxy tracking of third party interactions: A computer-implemented method and system is operable to: receive a tracking event from a client, recognize tracking specific parameters in the tracking event, generate a tracking entry corresponding to the tracking event, use a tracking service API to send the tracking entry to a second server, and redirect the client... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070168504 - Optimizing oxygen tank deliver or refills for copd patients through measurement of blood oxygen levels: A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual through a user interface. Responses to the... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070168498 - Out-of-band characterization of server utilization via remote access card virtual media for auto-enterprise scaling: A method for characterizing server utilization out-of-band via remote access card virtual media includes sending at least one preselected desired parameter comprising at least one of at least one performance parameter and at least one process parameter, and at least one preselected polling interval to a remote access card disposed... Agent: Randall C. Furlong Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070168495 - Systems and methods for network data storage: A data storage system that is based on a unique configuration of hardware and collection of open source software. In a preferred networked implementation, the system includes a plurality of data storage servers arranged in a cluster and each being accessible via a network switch to an external network. Each... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070168513 - Method and system for managing licenses to content: Process for enabling a content provider and its users to easily manage licenses for intended uses for selected or provided content. Licensing information for content previously provided to a user or acquired by the content provider, a digital fingerprint, and/or a digital identifier are employed to uniquely identify a particular... Agent: Corbis Corporation C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20070168508 - Aggregating information from a cluster of peers: A method and system for aggregating configuration information from friend devices is provided. The aggregation system attempts to foil attacks on the privacy of data contributed to a request by aggregating data from a cluster of friend devices in such a way that it is difficult for a device in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070168510 - Applying a filter set to information provided to a subscribing client: Applying a filter to state information sent from a server to a subscribing client includes receiving a subscription request from the subscribing client, where the subscription request requests a subscription for the subscribing client. A subscriber value is established from the subscription request. A filter set corresponding to the subscriber... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070168511 - Method and apparatus for user moderation of online chat rooms: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for user-moderation of an online chat room in which a plurality of users are exchanging messages includes providing the chat room and controlling a manner in which the users send and receive the messages in the chat room in accordance with user... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20070168514 - Output management system and method for enabling printing via wireless devices: A system and method for managing output such as printing, faxing, and e-mail over various types of computer networks. In one aspect, the method provides for printing via a wireless device. The system provides renderable data to the wireless device by which a user-interface (UI) may be rendered. The UI... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070168512 - Peer-to-peer name resolution protocol (pnrp) security infrastructure and method: A security infrastructure and methods are presented that inhibit the ability of a malicious node from disrupting the normal operations of a peer-to-peer network. The methods of the invention allow both secure and insecure identities to be used by nodes by making them self-verifying. When necessary or opportunistic, ID ownership... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070168507 - Resource arbitration via persistent reservation: Reserving ownership of a shared resource including registering a node with the shared resource using a first registration, delaying an interval of time and then attempting to detect the registration and, if the first registration is detected indicating no other node is maintaining ownership of the shared resource, preempting any... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070168509 - System and method for remote loading of classes: A system and method are described in which remote resources are transmitted to a client. For example, the client may make a dynamic call to a remote server for a classloader and/or class and the server transmits the necessary classloader and/or class to the client.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070168517 - Content delivery network service provider (cdnsp)-managed content delivery network (cdn) for network service provider (nsp): A CDN service provider shares its CDN infrastructure with a network to enable a network service provider (NSP) to offer a private-labeled network content delivery network (NCDN or “private CDN”) to participating content providers. The CDNSP preferably provides the hardware, software and services required to build, deploy, operate and manage... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070168518 - Flexible remote data mirroring: Methods, systems, and configured storage media are provided for flexible data mirroring. In particular, the invention provides local-remote role reversal, implementation of hot standby server status through a “media not ready” signal, several alternate buffer contents and buffering schemes, transactioning, many-to-one mirroring through use of “virtual” remote mirroring units, identification... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070168516 - Resource freshness and replication: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to resource replication systems. In aspects, a mechanism is described that detects when local resources are stale. Local resources may be stale when the time between a last successful synchronization activity and a current time exceeds a staleness value. If the local... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070168515 - System and method of controlling removable media inventory: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for controlling removable media inventory. A request for corrective data to be combined with data stored on a removable medium to enable successful processing of the data stored on the removable medium is received from a media device. Then, an identification and flaw assessment... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070168521 - Mediating system and method to establish communication session, allowing private information to be protected: According to the present invention, attribute information of a user who is using a client logging in a session managing server, and attribute information of a service operating on the client are managed, a condition (SEP) to establish a communication session among multiple session managing servers related to the session... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070168520 - Network layer end-point transfer: Methods and apparatus for handing off an end-point associated with a first device to a second device within a locally accessible network operating in an Internet protocol (IP) environment that supports multiple addresses for each device are provided. The first device is in a currently established session with a third... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070168519 - System and method for implementing personalized alerts utilizing a user registry in instant messenger: A system and method for implementing personalized alerts utilizing a user registry in instant messenger. A first client logs on to a server utilizing an instant messenger program. The first client selects at least one attribute that describes at least one user in a user registry. After selecting the attributes,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070168524 - Intelligent location based services and navigation hybrid system: An intelligent location based services and navigation hybrid system comprising a client having location based service capability and a server, the system setting a condition for new or updates of a relevant information by the server and/or client, selecting the relevant information for the updates by the server, transmitting the... Agent: Irene Y. Hu

20070168526 - Method and apparatus for collecting attribute-information, and computer product: An apparatus for collecting attribute information of an information processing apparatus to be monitored in a system for monitoring the information processing apparatus via a network includes an attribute-information obtaining unit that regularly obtains first attribute information from the information processing apparatus to be monitored, and when obtaining the first... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070168527 - Method and system for distributing session key across gatekeeper zones in a direct-routing mode: A method for distributing a session key across GateKeeper (GK) zones in a direct-routing mode, including the following steps: a caller's GK and a callee's GK determine a session key distributing mode for a caller and a callee to distribute the session key according to information contained in a received... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070168525 - Method for improved virtual adapter performance using multiple virtual interrupts: The present invention provides a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing multiple interrupts for multiple packets concurrently. First, data packets are assigned one of a set of interrupt queues for a virtual adapter in response to detecting the data packets. Each of the interrupt queues... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168523 - Multicast-unicast adapter: A method and system provides the capability for multicast data traffic to flow with a unicast mechanism; that is, for some network entity to send a copy of the MC data session to a specific network address associated with the client. A method of transmitting data traffic comprises transmitting data... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070168522 - User interface system for handheld devices: One or more handheld devices may be configured to receive and display content. A server may be configured to help the handheld devices display content. For example, by using at least some of the contents of one or more of feeds, the server may generate user interface data, which the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070168529 - Contact list display system and method: A technique for contact list aggregation across networks involves logging into low level networks through a high level network. A system constructed according to the technique may include a network interface coupled to the different low level networks. The system may further include a contact aggregation engine coupled to the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070168530 - Identifying dynamic groups: Technology is disclosed for identifying dynamic groups that correspond to a user of a system. A system partitions a set of dynamic groups into multiple test sets of dynamic groups. The system selects a test set and determines whether the user corresponds to the test set. In one implementation, the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070168528 - Mounting device, electronic device, method of controlling mounting device, controlling program, and recording medium: A embedded device is provided which includes a connection unit to which a plurality of peripheral devices are connected as assembly material; a program memory unit that contains a plurality of application programs that use peripheral devices connected to the connection unit; an application execution unit that executes the application... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070168531 - System and method for identifying a subscriber for connection to a communication network: A system for identifying a subscriber includes an access server coupled to a number of subscribers using a first communication network and further coupled to a second communication network, a memory coupled to the access server, and a processor coupled to the memory. The access server receives a communication from... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070168532 - Systems and methods for distributed network protection: By distributing various information and monitoring centers that monitor distributed networks and unauthorized access attempts, it is possible to, for example, more quickly defend against an unauthorized access attempts. For example, a Level 1 monitoring center could monitor a predetermined geographical area serving, for example, a wide variety of commercial... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070168534 - Codec and session parameter change: Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving timing information corresponding to updating parameters in an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) fragment. The parameters may be associated with a session of a program or service corresponding to the ESG fragment. In one example, the parameters may be updated and a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070168538 - Computer architecture and software cells for broadband networks: A computer architecture and programming model for high speed processing over broadband networks are provided. The architecture employs a consistent modular structure, a common computing module and uniform software cells. The common computing module includes a control processor, a plurality of processing units, a plurality of local memories from which... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070168537 - Method for intelligent and automated transmission of local context in converged signaling: Methods and systems are provided for associating contextual data with communication sessions, in particular in technical help desk scenarios. A context logger service running on a central server or on an individual computing device is used to create a log of application specific, often ephemeral, contextual data for a plurality... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20070168533 - Method for managing networks by analyzing connectivity: A method is disclosed for determining the ability of a network to spread information or physical traffic. Said network includes a number of network nodes interconnected by links. The method comprises mapping the topology of a network, computing a value for link strength between the nodes, computing an Eigenvector Centrality... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20070168536 - Network protocol stack isolation: A method and a network architecture for isolation of the network protocol stack from the operating system are provided. The network architecture may include an IO interface arranged to receive and transfer messages from/to the consumer application. The messages may carry high-level generic network device commands, targeted for execution by... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070168535 - System and method for data communication between devices: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in data communication between devices. A device might, for example, communicate to another device some or all of metadata of one or more objects. The device to which the metadata was communicated might, for instance, further come to possess corresponding object binary data, and/or... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070168543 - Capturing and sharing media content: A media device allows users to watch and capture portions from a media stream. Users may then share the captured media content with other users. In one embodiment, the media device receives a media stream, plays the media stream, and caches a portion of the media stream as it is... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070168540 - Low storage portable media player: A portable media player can play a large number of media files without being required to physically store all of the media files at any given time. In one implementation, the portable media player includes a memory to store a playlist that includes a plurality of entries succinctly representing media... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070168542 - Media article adaptation to client device: Systems and methods provide for on-the-fly adaptation of a send rate for content sent to a client based on a detected read rate of the client system for data previously sent. The system and method work within the bounds of simple, existing, open protocols and the media files served are... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070168541 - Serving media articles with altered playback speed: Systems and methods provide for on-the-fly alteration of apparent playback rate for content sent to a client based on a request from the client to alter the playback speed of the content. The system and method can use existing, open protocols and the media files served are playable by standard... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070168544 - System, method, and article of manufacture for a user interface for a network media channel: A user interface for a network media channel allows subscribers to share media files according to ad-hoc specification via kernels. The user interface may be accessed via a device and it may be utilized to create and/or modify media files and/or kernels and to transmit them to one or more... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael M. Ahmadshahi

20070168539 - Systems and methods for managing a status change of a multimedia asset in multimedia delivery systems: Systems and methods are disclosed which detect a change in the status of a multimedia asset in a multimedia delivery system, and take steps to make the multimedia asset available after the status change. The multimedia asset can then be locally recorded on the user's digital video recorder (DVR) before... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070168545 - Methods and devices for processing incomplete data packets: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing data packets. A set of data fragments are received at the data processing system to form a set of received data fragments. Assembly of the set of data fragments is initiated into a data packet, and a determination... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168547 - Computerized system and method for handling network traffic: A computerized system and method for processing network content associated with multiple virtual domains. The processing may include anti-malware scanning and/or content filtering. The content associated with multiple domains may be processed in the same daemon process. In response to connection requests from virtual domains, the service process creates separate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070168546 - Efficient dispatch of messages based on message headers: Various embodiments utilize information contained in a message, such as addressing and other information, to derive a unique identifier. The unique identifier is then used as a means to route an associated message to an appropriate component for processing. In at least some embodiments, the unique identifier is derived using... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070168549 - Enhanced digital video broadcast idle mode in wireless communication networks: A method in a digital video broadcast enabled wireless communication device (400) operating in idle mode including receiving a digital video broadcast program association table including program and corresponding program mapping table packet identifier information, and providing information in the received program association table about a subsequent program association table... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070168548 - Method and system for performing multi-cluster application-specific routing: Computer implemented method, system and computer program product for routing an application in a data processing system that includes a plurality of machine clusters. A computer implemented method for routing an application request in a data processing system that includes a plurality of machine clusters includes receiving a request for... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070168550 - Summary-based routing for content-based event distribution networks: A system arid method for enabling highly scalable multi-node event distribution networks through the use of summary-based routing, particularly event distribution networks using a content-based publish/subscribe model to distribute information. By allowing event routers to use imprecise summaries of the subscriptions hosted by matcher nodes, an event router can eliminate... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070168553 - Ad hoc wireless network create/join user experience: A user interface for creating and joining meetings over a peer-to-peer network involves presentation of user interface windows including windows for selecting parameters corresponding to the ad-hoc network, activating sharing of Internet connections and joining an existing ad-hoc network by entering network name and optional password. The user interface further... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070168551 - Address and port number abstraction when setting up a connection between at least two computational devices: The invention relates to a method, computational devices, a system of computational devices and computer program products for abstracting address and port number usage for an application running on first and second devices. The system comprises a first device (10) that receives a request for binding of a socket to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070168555 - Efficient multicast call setup method and system: A system (100) and method (200) of setting up a multicast session in a wireless system having at least one access point serving a plurality of wireless terminals that are members of a multicast group can include collecting (202) a member set representing members of the multicast group and receiving... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070168552 - Method and system for controlling access to data communication applications: A method and apparatus for controlling access to data communication applications is disclosed. According to the method, the DNS names of the servers of the data communication applications are identified. The identified DNS names are used to determine the IP addresses of the servers. Furthermore, the identified IP addresses are... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070168554 - System and method for providing trickle resource discovery: A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for retrieving a first entry from a collection of trickle confirmation entries (associated with a first collection of resources that require configuration confirmation) from a trickle confirmation queue. A first resource among the first collection of resources associated with the first entry from the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070168556 - Electronic data delivery method: Electronic data is delivered by using the secret sharing method. A transmission source device divides the electronic data into a predetermined number of partial data by using the secret sharing method and creates an arbitrary number of auxiliary data corresponding to the predetermined number of partial data and having information... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070168557 - Fax-to-email and email-to-fax communication system and method: A facsimile/email communication system and method providing a user the ability to send emails from any standalone facsimile machine and providing a user the ability to logon to a centralized web server and send facsimiles to any standalone fax machine.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070168558 - High level network layer system and method: A technique for providing high level network layer functionality to an IM environment involves providing a high level platform through which IM clients can connect to IM networks. A platform according to the technique may include a low level network connect engine, an aggregated low level information database, and/or a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070168559 - San/nas integrated storage system: In a storage system directly connected to a network, if conventional interfaces and protocols are used when an I/O command issued from a file server is transmitted to the storage system, the command/data is serially transferred via a single transfer path so that the performance is lowered. Conventional interfaces do... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070168561 - E-mail management systems and methods: Systems and methods for e-mail management. An event indicating that an image is stored in a reserved section of storage is received. The stored image is acquired from the reserved section of storage. The acquired image is compressed. The compressed image carried by an e-mail is transmitted to a destination.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070168560 - System and method for compressing url request parameters: Method and system for compressing URL request parameters is provided. At least a portion of a URL is converted from a first form into at least a second form and communicated.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070168562 - Participant-selective event synchronization for portable electronic devices: An association between an identifier and the portable electronic device is established. An event database, for example, an event database maintained at a desktop or other computer, is searched to identify an event entry having a participant field value corresponding to the identifier associated with the portable electronic device. Data... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070168563 - Single logical network interface for advanced load balancing and fail-over functionality: The invention sets forth an approach for aggregating a plurality of NICs in a computing device into a single logical NIC as seen by that computing device's operating system. The combination of the single logical NIC and a network resource manager provides a reliable and persistent interface to the operating... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070162537 - Common application services framework: A system for providing applications for mobile service providers includes a common application services framework providing one or more interfaces to communicate with applications accessible by one or more mobile communication devices, and providing a web-based interface to the one or more mobile communication devices using a plurality of communication... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070162536 - Communication network for controlling devices: A system and method for controlling devices that are part of a peer to peer network of controllers is provided. Messages are routed to controllers of the network and such messages are used to control devices coupled to said controllers. Status messages indicating the state of devices are routed to... Agent: Paul J. Sutton, Esq., Barry G. Magidoff, Esq. Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070162538 - System and method of providing contents for mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to a system and a method of providing content for a mobile communication terminal, and a computer readable medium comprising a program for implementing the method. There is provided a method of: providing content for a mobile communication terminal, storing content organized into sub-content files, wherein... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070162539 - System and method for callbacks based on web service addressing: Embodiments of the present invention enable related parties to setup asynchronous messaging exchanges between Web services based on Web service addressing. All the callback address lookup, population and setup can be performed automatically by the service provider at the infrastructure level transparent to the user and only the service/contract itself... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070162540 - Inter-agent communication: A method is provided for communicating between software agents in a multi-agent system. Communication between agents is defined by means of a conversation model comprising a sequence of defined tasks which, when executed by a software agent, implement one or more roles in an inter-agent conversation. A software agent is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070162543 - Methods and systems for managing fault-tolerant webpage presentation: A method for managing fault-tolerant webpage presentation. First, platform configurations for presenting a first webpage of a web server are stored. When a request for downloading the first webpage is received from a client computer, the webpage presentation capabilities thereof is subsequently detected and compared with the platform configurations. When... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070162541 - Peer distribution point feature for system management server: A client in a plurality of clients with a same network address or similar common identifier is designated a Peer Distribution Point (PDP) agent for distributing a software application divided into several packages to the plurality of clients. The plurality of clients are part of a client-server hierarchical system comprising... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070162542 - System and method for managing a telemarketing campaign: A system and a method for managing a solicitation campaign are disclosed. A solicitor provides a solicitation center with pages of personalized script, which are generated using a first script template. The solicitor receives solicitee responses, analyzes the solicitiee responses, and determines whether to continue the solicitation campaign using the... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070162545 - Method and system for initiating an instant conversation at backend or at front-end over internet: A method and system for initiating an instant conversation by a web user at backend or at front-end. The instant conversation is presented in a web browser over internet. The system supports multiple concurrent instant conversations through wire or wireless devices. The conversation receiver doesn't need to login or install... Agent: Liu, Albert Chuan

20070162544 - Method of and a system for accepting user-created content on a computer network site: Accepting a user-created content on a computer network site includes submitting a content by a submitter, receiving the submitted content from the submitter; reviewing the submitted content by jurors to accept or to reject the content; and if the concept is accepted, making it accessible for users.... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20070162547 - Methods and apparatus for community organization: The present invention provides methods, systems, and components for bringing together individuals into an organization of groups in an online environment and for providing ways to help groups keep in contact and manage affairs. The groups are organized such that members of any particular group share some common interest or... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070162546 - Sharing tags among individual user media libraries: A system and method are disclosed for unifying tags of a media user community by transferring user-supplied tags between individual user media libraries. One aspect comprises a process for identifying, within a user community, common tags associated with media items and common media items associated with tags by cross-referencing media... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070162550 - Vehicle-to-vehicle instant messaging with locative addressing: An automobile-to-automobile instant-messaging system that enables a user of a first automobile to selectively send a communicative message to a user of a second automobile, the communicative message being addressed to the second automobile based at least in part upon its location with respect to the first automobile. In some... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070162551 - Data communication apparatus and electronic mail data producing method: A data communication apparatus and an electronic mail data producing method are provided that are capable of allowing a file name to be easily added to a file attached to an electronic mail and also allowing a file name to be added to a file attached to an electronic mail,... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070162548 - Messaging script for communications server: For use in a communication system, a method of testing communications between at least one enterprise server and at least one handheld mobile communication device, the method comprising automatically sending a plurality of test messages from the enterprise server to the handheld mobile communication device. Also set forth is a... Agent: Stephen J. Perry Perry + Partners

20070162549 - System and method for conversation based on web service addressing: Embodiments of the present invention introduces mechanisms that allow conversational Web services to have long running business transactions between multiple parties with persistent states. Web service addressing is used to exchange conversational identifiers between the client(s) who requests the service and the server who provides it. This description is not... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070162554 - Generating a public key and a private key in an instant messaging server: An apparatus, program product and method generate a public key and a private key in an instant messaging server. The public key and the private key may be generated in the instant messaging server in connection with the user logging into the instant messaging server. As such, the public key... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070162553 - Interactive moderated voice chat system: A moderated voice chat service is provided that is participated by a group of anonymous users. A Conference Bridge interfaces to the communication network. The Conference Bridge is capable of placing (and possibly receiving) voice calls to (from) users of the communication network in order to connect users to the... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070162552 - Method and system for providing an instant messaging camp-on service: A method for providing an instant messaging camp-on service includes receiving, via a first instant messaging device, a request from a first user to log into an instant messaging server and to camp-on an instant messaging availability of a second user, wherein the second user is currently unavailable. The method... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070162555 - Promoting interoperability of presence-based systems through the use of ubiquitous online identities: A client system submits a request to the first instant messaging system to access the first instant messaging service. The request includes an online identity that is associated with a second instant messaging system. The first instant messaging system communicates with the second instant messaging system to enable authentication of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070162556 - Method of one key test function in a consumer network device: Embodiments of the present invention include methods of one-key test function in a Control Console in a network device. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a console controller, a display module and an input module with a test-key on a network device so that a user can test status,... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20070162557 - System and method for transferring service requests: A method for transferring service requests is provided. The method includes the steps of: proving a storage in a control server (1) for storing preset commands and server status codes; selecting a TCP/UDP port of the control server and allocating a first proxy server (3) for the control server according... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070162558 - Method, apparatus and program product for remotely restoring a non-responsive computing system: A method for restoring a remote server that is not responding due to a memory constraint is provided. The method comprises providing a remote server connected to a network communications channel, pinning a reserve memory segment program to the memory in the remote server to control a reserve memory segment... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20070162559 - Protocol flow control: In a flow control method, operation flow is controlled on a per connection basis. The method comprises managing a sending peer to prevent overflow of a receiving peer's receiver credits and allocating a number of send buffers at the sending peer greater than or equal to the maximum number of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070162561 - Data storage system and data storage control apparatus: A storage system has a plurality of control modules for controlling a storage device for accesses from a mainframe host and an open system host respectively supporting different protocols. An open channel adaptor and a mainframe channel adaptor are separately provided. The mainframe channel adaptor is connected to a plurality... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070162560 - System and method for asynchronous request response: Embodiments of the present invention enable a server to respond to a service request from a client with a “get the request” type of response first instead of an actual and immediate response, which will be sent later asynchronously in a separate message when the response becomes available at the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070162562 - Method and system for supporting information access and record media therefor: Method and system for supporting access to information and a recording medium are provided. The method of supporting access to information in a system connected to a user client through a network includes: (a) receiving an access application download request from the user client; (b) transmitting the requested access application... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070162571 - Combining and serving media content: Systems and methods provide for dynamic generation of media content at the point that content is served. The system and method work within the bounds of simple, existing, open protocols and the media files served are playable by standard media playback clients. The method is driven by a request for... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070162568 - Dynamic media serving infrastructure: Systems and methods provide for dynamic generation of media content at the point that content is served. The system and method work within the bounds of simple, existing, open protocols and the media files served are playable by standard media playback clients. The method is driven by a request for... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070162564 - File system interface to web and network services: A method for providing an interface to a service for a plurality of clients by a backend data center using a remote file system that includes receiving a first file by the remote file system from a client of the plurality of clients, determining the service associated with the first... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070162567 - Managing network-enabled devices: A technique is provided for dynamically extending a network device manager when a new device and/or service are added to a network. A technique for extending a rule set associated with the management system is also provided. A service discovery module discovers a new network device on a network. A... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070162565 - Method and system for minimizing disruption during in-service software upgrade: A method and a system for in-service software upgrade in a Hot Standby Redundant Distributed (HSRD) system are provided. A standby route processor in HSRD system is updated with upgraded software. The standby route processor is synchronized with an active route processor present in the HSRD system. The control of... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070162572 - Method and system for protocol offload and direct i/o with i/o sharing in a virtualized network environment: Methods and systems for protocol offload and direct I/O with I/O sharing in a virtualized network environment are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a plurality of GOSs sharing a single network interface circuitry, or a network interface card, (NIC) that may provide access to a network. The NIC... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070162573 - Network system for distributing protected content: A system comprises a server module that stores identifiers of available content. A remote content provider transmits selected content to a network device from the available content based on a queue including a list of identifiers of content associated with the network device. The remote content provider stores the selected... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070162563 - Separable url internet browser-based gaming system: A system and method for enabling one network to use the functionality of another network is provided. The system comprises a first network system having a first network functionality and a second network system having a second network functionality. A server connected to the second network system passes directions through... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20070162569 - Social interaction system: A mobile social interaction system that enables users to communicate to desired candidates via handheld and/or mobile devices is provided. User profiles or other criteria can be employed in order to facilitate matching candidates. The innovation enables the users to anonymously communicate via voice, video and/or text messaging communications. Additionally,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070162566 - System and method for using a mobile device to create and access searchable user-created content: A system and method is provided which allows users to create, upload and post user-created content to a website or device such that this user-created content is searchable and accessible from a mobile device. The system and method provide a distributed network of independent websites, devices and mobile devices that... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070162570 - Techniques for sharing content information with members of a virtual user group in a network environment without compromising user privacy: Techniques for sharing content information between members of a virtual user group without compromising the privacy of the members. A user can identify content information to be shared with other members of a virtual user group using a user computer system. The content information is then communicated to the other... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070162575 - Configuration of lan hosts: A Local Area network is disclosed in which host specific configuration information, and in particular VSI, can be distributed. A network server is disclosed that is capable of supplying both network configuration information, including IP addresses, and VSI. This is used in addition to existing network servers. A relay agent... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070162574 - Data serialization in a user switching environment: A method for sharing a common computing system among multiple users is disclosed. A user can perform a login process during which an input data, such as a user name or a password can be entered by the user to access a session. The user name and/or the password are... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070162585 - Cyber farm system and managing method thereof: A cyber farm system and a managing method thereof that can decorate an individual cyber farm by transmitting items related to the cyber farm to an electronic frame installed in a home using a mobile terminal. The method of managing a cyber farm using an electronic frame in a home... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070162590 - Apparatus, systems, and method for communicating to a network through a virtual domain: The present invention is an apparatus, system and method for communicating to a network through an ad hoc virtual domain. The present invention contains a deceiver, a controller, and a forwarder through which a client communicates through. The deceiver, controller, and forwarder collectively establish the domain in which the ad... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070162579 - Dynamic storage of documents: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to dynamic storage of documents. According to an example embodiment, a location may be dynamically determined from a group of locations to store a state associated with a document based on one or more criteria.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070162589 - File sharing using instant messaging applications: A system and method for providing file sharing using an instant messaging application are described herein. In one embodiment, a communication channel is established via an instant messaging application between a local device and a remote device over a network. In a file sharing window on the local device a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070162583 - Information providing device, device discovering method, and computer product: A first device, a second device, and a plurality of third devices are connected to one network. The second device holds attribute information of all the third devices. The first device sends a discovery request of a UPnP protocol. The discovery request includes a service type corresponding to the device-information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070162576 - Interfacing i/o devices with a mobile server: A mobile server is wirelessly communicable with at least one remote input/output (I/O) device to form a wireless personal-area network (PAN). The mobile server has at least one application program interface (API) allowing an application of arbitrary implementation on the mobile server to recognize and control at least one service... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070162584 - Method and apparatus for creating resource plan, and computer product: In a resource plan creating apparatus, a compatibility value between a task and computer hardware is calculated by a compatibility value calculating unit based on a performance value acquired by an acquiring unit. An estimated load fluctuation value of each service tree is detected by a detecting unit from an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070162588 - Method and system for adding group member: A method and a system for adding a group member, includes: sending a client corresponding to a user to be possibly added to a group a notification message to confirm whether the user agrees to be added to the group; obtaining a confirmation result from the client, and adding to... Agent: Robert Popa C/o Ladas & Parry

20070162580 - Method and system for creating an overlay structure for management information bases: A method, a system, and an apparatus are provided for organizing management information bases (MIB) in a network. A table, associated with an overlay MIB structure, is populated with entries. Each entry defines an object identifier (OID) of a mount point and an OID of a mount target. A selection... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070162586 - Middleware device and method of supporting compatibility of devices in home network: A middleware device and a method of supporting compatibility of devices on a home network are provided, in which the compatibility of all kinds of devices based on UPnP and web service is supported by protocol conversion. The middleware device includes a discovery unit receiving discovery messages based on different... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070162582 - Network event notification and delivery: Described are a main host system of the client computer, and a network event notification system, including a networking subsystem that communicates with a network server to act as a proxy for the client computer when the main host system of the client computer is in a sleep state. The... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070162587 - Source reputation information system with router-level filtering of electronic messages: Disclosed herein are filtering systems and methods that employ an electronic message source reputation system. The source reputation system maintains a pool of source Internet Protocol (IP) address information, in the form of a Real-Time Threat Identification Network (“RTIN”) database, which can provide the reputation of source IP addresses, which... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070162578 - System and method for application initiated user interaction: A system, method and computer program product of using peer collaboration tools to extend the reach of applications by enabling the application to specify a modality policy that is predicated on end-user context when pushing an interaction to the end-user. Various collaboration technologies—including cell phones, email, instant messaging (IM), the... Agent: Steven Fischman, Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070162577 - System for providing managed computing service: A method for providing managed computing service for a plurality of clients using a remote file system that includes obtaining a plurality of service unit files associated with each of the plurality of clients, updating a service unit file in the plurality of service unit files when a service unit... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070162581 - Using identity/resource profile and directory enablers to support identity management: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, system and machine-readable media for dynamically providing identity management or other services. According to one embodiment, dynamically providing services can comprise receiving a request related to an unknown principal. A service to which the principal is known can be selected. Once a service... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070162593 - Abstracting help calls using a documentation abstraction layer: A documentation abstraction layer facilitates the abstraction of help calls. When help is instigated in a client program, the client program may send a dialog ID to a documentation abstraction layer. The documentation abstraction layer maps the dialog ID to calls for obtaining help dialogs. The documentation abstraction layer generates... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070162594 - Controlled disconnection of a network device: Methods, computer-readable media and systems for preparing for the disconnection of a device from a network. In the method, a pending disconnection of a network device is detected and a message indicative of the pending disconnection is generated. The message is sent to at least one component of the network... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070162598 - Method and system for advanced messaging: An implementation of the inventive concept enables an outside entity to alter user's internet experience on a system-wide level. Specifically, inventive system enables a merchant, a distributor or any other entity to send contextually-relevant messages directly to the user's computer. Upon the receipt of the messages by the controller application... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070162592 - Method for zoning data storage network using sas addressing: A method of zoning a fabric-attached (SAS) storage network. For each target attached to an expander, the expander maintains a list of SAS addresses of initiator devices that are permitted access to that's ports target devices. Configuration and management of zones may be accomplished using a management application, such as... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070162591 - Network equipment restart indication: A network element (140) uses a non-volatile memory (150) to store indicia of reboots. The indicia of reboots are communicated over a network to a network manager (110). The network manager (110) compares the indicia of reboots and a prior indicia of reboots to assess whether a network element (140)... Agent: Patents And Licensing LLC Daniel W. Juffernbruch

20070162596 - Server monitor program, server monitor device, and server monitor method: Disclosed is a medium, server monitor device, and server monitor method which are capable of obtaining an audit trail even if an administrator authority of a server leaks. The server monitor program is to be executed by a computer of an ATP 3 connected between a client machine 2 and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070162597 - Service notification system: A service notification system for notifying a service content to a user includes: a location detecting unit for detecting location information of a terminal owned by the user; a service selection unit for selecting a service which is provided to the user based upon attribution information of the user which... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070162595 - System and method for tracking network resources: A system for tracking resource usage in network. In a specific embodiment, the system includes a memory in a distributed-forwarding switch that maintains resource evolution information. A module, which communicates with the memory, is adapted to update the resource evolution information when the resource changes or information associated with the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070162599 - Distributing a policy decision function in an ip multimedia subsystem: An Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is provided that includes a plurality of separate central processing units (CPUs). The IMS also includes a logical Policy Decision Function (PDF) component comprising a plurality of physical PDF network elements, each physical PDF network element execute on separate CPUs of the plurality... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070162600 - Promoting interoperability of presence-based systems through the use of ubiquitous online identities: A first instant messaging system is configured to receive a message directed to an online identity, while a client system is using the online identity to access a second instant messaging system. Traffic delivery rules may be shared between the instant messaging systems to control delivery the delivery of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070162604 - Information processing method, information processing device, and program: An information processing device, which is communicably connected to a client device used by a user and each of a plurality of server devices to perform information processing for a service, stores on a memory server identification information for identifying the server device to perform the information processing, for each... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070162601 - Method for autonomic system management using adaptive allocation of resources: An exemplary method of resource allocation is provided. A relationship is estimated between at least one controlled resource and at least one dependent parameter. A resource allocation of the at least one controlled resource is adjusted to effect a desired system goal expressed in terms of the at least one... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070162602 - Template-based approach for workload generation: A system and method for workload generation include a processor for identifying a workload model by determining each of a hierarchy for workload generation, time scales for workload generation, and states and transitions at each of the time scales, and defining a parameter by determining each of fields for user... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070162603 - Virtual memory technique for efficiently solving connected problems in a distributed environment: Embodiments herein present a virtual memory technique for efficiently solving connected problems in a distributed environment. An exemplary method begins by selectively loading computing task segments into a first node, wherein the number of computing task segments is the maximum number of computing task segments that will fit within the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070162606 - Communication device capable of setting a mood mode and method for sending and receiving a mood mode by the communication device: The present invention discloses a communication device capable of setting a mood mode and a method for sending and receiving a mood mode by the communication device, that a communication device can independently use a low power transceiver module of the communication device to receive or send a mood from... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070162605 - Distributed instant messaging: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for the steps of (1) establishing a first Instant messaging (IM) session with a first user login identifier (ID) on a first client device with a first network routing address; and, when a request to establish a next IM session with the same first... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070162607 - Insertion of protocol messages through a shim: A technique for automatically terminating a session between a client and server in a communication network where the client fails to explicitly terminate the session. A client associated with the session is monitored to determine if a condition exists that warrants terminating the session between the client and the server.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070162608 - Using services provided via a communication system: The present invention relates to a method for using services provided via a communication system. The method comprises providing user equipment with a service logic entity for interfacing a service provided via the communication network with features of the user equipment. The method further comprises configuring the service logic in... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070162609 - Data protocol: A method of transmitting data according to a data transmission protocol wherein the data is transmitted as a plurality of data frames and each data frame includes an error checking field comprising at least two sub-fields, the data of the first sub-field being formed by a first error checking method... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070162610 - Low-level media access layer processors with extension buses to high-level media access layers for network communications: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for implementing the Media-access control layer of a network device.... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070162611 - Discontinuous download of media files: Systems and methods provide for discontinuous download of media files. The system and method work within the bounds of simple, existing, open protocols and the media files served are playable by standard media playback clients. The method is driven by a request to play a media file from any location... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070162612 - Method and system for the automatic reroute of data over a local area network: A method and system for rerouting data over a local area network is provided. The method comprises defining at least one port group associated with a bridging device, each port group including interfaces linked to the bridging device. A plurality of statuses for each port group is defined, the status... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070162613 - Processing network communication control messages: Control messages constructed in accordance with a first communications protocol for use in a communications network each include a first address identifier having a format defined by the first protocol. The control message is processed to derive a second address identifier having a format defined by a second communications protocol.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070162614 - Method and apparatus for achieving border gateway protocol convergence using alternate route information: A method of improving BGP convergence in a packet-switched network comprises receiving, at a router in the packet-switched network, an advertisement of a first route that includes alternate route information indicating that an alternate route is available; storing the alternate route information in association with the first route; detecting a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070162615 - Auto-addressing mechanism for a networked system: A system for assigning addresses to components in a networked system. The network includes a control unit and two or more functional components. The system provides the capability to address an individual component or a group of components in the network. The components may be speakers, sound masking units, lighting... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070162616 - Method and system for implementing automated service provisioning on a ppp access terminal: This invention relates to a method and system for implementing Automated Service Provisioning on a PPP Access Terminal. This invention mainly includes: a PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) Access Terminal first decides the address information of the Network Management/Auto-Configuration Server; the PPP Access Terminal automatically obtains address information required for launching services... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070162617 - Methods and systems for dynamic scan compression: A method for compressing data includes transmitting a requested compression factor such as a quality factor known in JPEG compression, to a scanner or like peripheral device. The type of communication link between the scanner or like device and a host computer is identified, and based on the communication link... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070162619 - Method and system for zero copy in a virtualized network environment: Methods and systems for zero copy in a virtualized network environment are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a plurality of GOSs that share a single NIC. The NIC may switch communication to a GOS to allow that GOS access to a network via the NIC. The NIC may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070162618 - Method for automatically setting up data connections between network subscriber stations in a network of distributed stations, and network subscriber stations as a user interface appliance for carrying out the method: The invention relates to the technical field of data communication in a network of distributed stations, particularly in a home network. A home network of this type allows AV data streams to be transmitted between network subscriber stations. The aim of the invention is to assist the user of a... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070162620 - Power over ethernet powered management and diagnoses of information handling systems: A power over Ethernet (PoE) compliant device may be able to keep alive just enough of a management controller and/or target to respond to requests and tell a host (initiator) why it may be unable to respond to a data transfer request in a desired fashion due to a power... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070156804 - System and method for a virtual mobile network supporting dynamic personal virtual mobile network with multimedia service orchestration: A system, various methods, and various apparatuses are provided whereby a Dynamic Personal Virtual Mobile Network can be created, in which multiple disparate networks can be interconnected to form a unified network environment. In this Dynamic Personal Virtual Mobile Network topology changes in real time as a user roams. Handover... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling, LLC

20070156805 - Remote access and social networking using presence-based applications: Various embodiments utilize a real-time instant messaging or presence based communications system as a mechanism to remotely control the operation, programming, and/or review of media content on a device or system such as a television, media center, gaming device, digital video recorder and the like. In addition, the use of... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070156807 - Data transmission method and arrangement for data transmission: An arrangement and a data transmission method are disclosed. The amount of traffic originated by the subscriptions of syndicated web feeds by terminals using point-to-point connections is monitored, the terminals being capable of broadcast reception. The cost of delivering the amount of traffic is compared to a threshold value. If... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070156808 - Method and system for message oriented middleware virtual provider distribution: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for Message Oriented Middleware virtual provider distribution. In one embodiment, MOM nodes are created. An MOM virtual provider from MOM virtual providers is selected for each of the plurality of MOM nodes. The MOM nodes run the MOM virtual providers.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156810 - Methods and apparatuses for selectively displaying information to an invited participant: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses include allowing an invited participant to access a customized web page; programming a first content for the invited participant; displaying the first content on the customized web page to the invited participant; and automatically displaying a second content based to the invited participant... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070156809 - Rss feed generator: A really simple syndication (RSS) feed generator provides a user access to a set of data in the form of an RSS feed containing an object. The RSS feed generator allows the user to generate a feed definition using any of a user interface, a web based application programming interface,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070156806 - Systems and methods for deploying a tenant in a provider-tenant environment: The present invention discloses methods and systems for hosting tenants over a network in a computer-based environment in which a provider may receive data structures corresponding to a first tenant, determine which of the data structures are specific to the first tenant and which the data structures are shared with... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070156812 - Dynamic audio data rerouting system, architecture and method: An audio data rerouting system, architecture and method thereof are disclosed in the present invention. The system includes a first audio device and a second audio device; a first audio driver and a second audio driver, respectively corresponding to the first and second audio devices; and an audio data rerouting... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070156814 - Method and/or system for providing and/or analyzing influence strategies: A method and/or system that can be implemented on a computing device or tables or board game or otherwise uses a rule set to evaluate data about a situation and actors in order to provide advice regarding strategies for influencing actors and/or other outputs.... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C.

20070156815 - Method, system and entities for multicast content pushing: The present invention discloses a method for multicast content pushing between a server entity (UA-I) and at least one client entity (UA-II) as well as a corresponding system and client and server entities. The method comprises the steps of inviting, by the server entity, at least one client entity to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070156813 - Method and apparatus for collaborative system: A collaborative system that includes automatic monitoring and management of reflector/servers and clients. The reflectors are in a logical cluster although their physical locations may be anywhere in the world. Reflector to reflector performance and status is continuously monitored. If a reflector-to-reflector link goes down or is underperforming, the reflector... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, LLP

20070156816 - System and method for real-time whiteboard capture and processing: A system that captures both whiteboard content and audio signals of a meeting using a video camera and records or transmits them in real-time. The Real-Time Whiteboard Capture captures pen strokes on whiteboards in real time using an off-the-shelf video camera. Unlike many existing tools, the RTWCS does not instrument... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070156811 - System with user interface for sending / receiving messages during a conference session: A conferencing system includes a conferencing module that includes a digital signal processor to mix audio signals received from conference participants, and a messaging manager module coupled with the conferencing module. the messaging manager module allocating a memory space for each conference participant, the memory space for storing a message,... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070156825 - Electronic mail (email) system providing enhanced message retrieval from email storage server and related methods: An electronic mail (email) system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device, and at least one email storage server for storing emails. The at least one email storage server may also be for associating with each email a unique identification (UID) value and a water mark value that... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070156828 - Remotely controllable soft keys: A method to remotely interact with an application server (4) of a Unified Messaging System (1) via an end user terminal (2) featuring soft keys is described, wherein at least one functionality dedicated to at least one soft key is remotely controllable by the application server (4) in real time.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156818 - 3d character mail system: The present invention has an object to enrich expression of contents of an e-mail message. In a mobile phone (1), text data (TxD) is input, and a 3D authoring operation is carried out. The text data (TxD) and 3D authoring instruction data (DD) are transmitted from the mobile phone (1)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070156823 - Automated creation/deletion of messaging resources during deployment/un-deployment of proxies for the messaging resources: A method is described that automatically invokes in software a method call to a messaging service in response to an awareness that a proxy for a messaging service resource is needed. The method call requests the messaging service to create the messaging service resource.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156824 - Community messaging system: A system for distributing electronic messages amongst a plurality of users wherein the system comprises a server and a plurality of client devices in communication by means of at least one communications network. A message management module maintains a message storage device, and provides a message user interface by which... Agent: Peter J. Van Bergen, Esq.

20070156830 - E-mail management services: The present invention provides an electronic message management system (EMS) that includes a real-time feedback loop where data is collected from the electronic messages on incoming connection attempts, outgoing delivery attempts, and message content analysis, and written to a centralized data matrix. A separate process accesses the data matrix and... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070156820 - Message classification system and method: An automatic message classification system includes a set of stored messages. Each message contains address identifiers. An incoming message processor delivers incoming messages to the system, each containing incoming address identifiers. A list of address identifiers is created by retrieving each address identifier of each message within the set of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070156829 - Messaging system with secure access: Secure access for a user of a messaging system is provided by requiring association of the user with an administrator regulating the user's use of the messaging system and by enabling communication with other users only in the event that a relationship of trust has been established between the other... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070156817 - Method for immediate delivery of email to telecommunication terminals: The invention relates to a method for immediately transmitting electronic messages to the telecommunication device of a receiver, preferably mobile, consisting in transmitting the electronic message from an emitter to a receiver by means of an electronic message server. According to said invention, the electronic messages are transmitted to the... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20070156831 - Method for providing address change notification in an electronic message forwarding system: A method and system for providing address change notification in an e-mail forwarding system by providing a pre-generated e-mail address change notification to recipients selected during registration in the e-mail forwarding system. The e-mail forwarding system operating when a message is received at an e-mail forwarding computer, the message identifying... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070156822 - Methods and computer programs for formulating messaging platform capacity projections: Computer-executable methods and programs for formulating a planning recommendation for a messaging platform. Mailbox data is received specifying a projected maximum number of mailboxes. Growth assumption data is received that specifies a change in average message size of messages. Traffic assumption data is received that identifies a portion of message... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070156826 - Promoting interoperability of presence-based systems through the use of ubiquitous online identities: Access to a first instant messaging service using an online identity that is associated with a second instant messaging service is enabled. A profile is accessed. The profile indicates that another instant messaging service is to be provided with presence information regarding the use of the online identity to access... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070156827 - Promoting interoperability of presence-based systems through the use of ubiquitous online identities: A client system is configured to submit a request to a first instant messaging system for access to the first instant messaging service The request includes an online identity that is currently being used to access a second instant messaging service associated with the second instant messaging system. The second... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070156821 - Representing new messages on a communication device: There is provided a method of representing new email messages on a communication device having a display. This method comprises setting a new message flag when an email message is received by the device; and displaying a new message indicator on the display when the new message flag is set.... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070156819 - System for handling electronic mail in a multiple user environment: The invention concerns an electronic mail management (EMM) system for handling electronic mail in a multiple user environment, in which the user's incoming electronic mail is sent and received, said system includes a mail distribution network including a server through which, electronic mail items of the users are exchanged, said... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070156834 - Cursor component for messaging service: A messaging service is described that incorporates messages into cached link lists. The messages are not yet acknowledged as having been received by one or more consumers to whom the messages were sent. A separate link list exists for each of a plurality of different message priority levels. Messages within... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156835 - Exchanging data between enterprise computing systems and service provider systems: A computer-implemented method may include executing, in a first computing system, two or more service processes, each service process, when executed, retrieving a distinct type of data from the computing system; storing the retrieved data in a table; encapsulating the table in an extensible markup language (XML) message; and transmitting... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156833 - Master queue for messaging service: A messaging service is described that incorporates messages into cached link lists. The messages are not yet acknowledged as having been received by one or more consumers to whom the messages were sent. A separate link list exists for each of a plurality of different message priority levels. Messages within... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156832 - Method and system for managing instant messaging interruptions: A method for managing instant messaging interruptions may include comparing at least one term in an instant message to a plurality of terms in a no-response-required (NRR) library. The method may also include representing the instant message as an instant message agent character (IMAC) in response to a match between... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20070156836 - System and method for electronic chat identity validation: A system and method that validates the identity of an instant messaging session user is provided. An instant messaging session is established between two instant messaging applications running on two different computers connected through a computer network. After the instant messaging session has been established, one of the users requests... Agent: Lenovo - Jvl C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20070156837 - Apparatus and method for manipulating images: An apparatus and method for manipulating images is disclosed. In one embodiment according to the invention, a method for manipulating images comprises: displaying for manipulation at a browser-based user interface a graphical representation of at least a portion of an image held at a remote image store; providing an internet... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070156843 - Searchable multimedia stream: The present invention provides a system and a method making an archived conference or presentation searchable after being stored in the archive server. According to the invention, one or more media streams coded according to H.323 or SIP are transmitted to a conversion engine for converting multimedia content into a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070156844 - Apparatus and method for storing content, and apparatus and method for displaying content: Provided are a method and apparatus for storing content, and a method and apparatus for displaying content. The method of displaying content, includes displaying display information representing content, which is stored in a hierarchical information structure based on time information of the content, in the form of timetable; receiving a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156842 - Distributed storage system with web services client interface: A distributed, web-services based storage system. A system may include a web services interface configured to receive, according to a web services protocol, a given client request for access to a given data object, the request including a key value corresponding to the object. The system may also include storage... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070156841 - Platform independent user interface for a mobile device: In an embodiment, a method is presented. The method includes playing a content file on a media player of a cellular telephone to provide a user interface to a user of the cellular telephone. The content file is independent of the cellular telephone. The method also includes receiving user commands... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP (adobe)

20070156845 - Site acceleration with content prefetching enabled through customer-specific configurations: A CDN edge server is configured to provide one or more extended content delivery features on a domain-specific, customer-specific basis, preferably using configuration files that are distributed to the edge servers using a configuration system. A given configuration file includes a set of content handling rules and directives that facilitate... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070156838 - System and method for policy-based advertising: A system and method for policy-based advertising. According to an embodiment, an advertisement server receives a request for advertising content from a user computer over a network, the advertising content associated with an advertising policy specifying one or more usage conditions to be met by a user of the user... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070156840 - Systems and methods for providing current status data to a requesting device: Systems and methods for providing status data to a requesting device are disclosed. A request for status data is transmitted from a requesting device to a providing device. The request includes prior values of variables stored at the requesting device. At the providing device, the transmitted prior values are compared... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070156839 - Web services for wireless pervasive devices: A computer-implemented method, apparatus and computer program product for providing an interface between a client application and a web service is disclosed. A first request from the client application is received. The first request is associated with a response schema specifying a format for responding to the client application. A... Agent: Ibm Almaden (ave) C/o Law Office Of Anthony England

20070156854 - A system for grabbing images from an ip camera: A system for grabbing images from an IP Camera, the system has a mounted Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and an installed IP Camera Module, the IP Camera Module simulates the behavior of a web page navigator retrieving data from a website when data is requested from an embedded website on... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070156855 - Channel searching media player: Software coordinates or otherwise provides for resolving a media search request, providing a user with a results set taken from at least one peer-to-peer file indexer, and obtaining the media, all without the burdens attendant upon actually running one of the peer-to peer clients. The software is particularly useful when... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070156851 - Collaborative help system: Apparatus are provided including a networking element to connect a user computer with an expert computer. A changing set of help topics is provided indicating topics for which a user requests help or for which an expert provides help. A help topic set modifier is provided to modify the changing... Agent: Anthony L. Miele Miele Law Group

20070156853 - Distribution and interface for multimedia content and associated context: Systems, apparatus and methods for distribution and interface for multimedia content and associated context are described herein. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an input from a user for multimedia content through a multimedia device. The method includes transmitting the input to a multimedia content provider. The method also... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070156856 - Method and system for managing the resources of an application program: A software resource manager is stored on a client computer and maintains a map of unique identifiers to resources, so as to determine those resources that are stored locally on the client computer and those resources that must be retrieved from a server system. The resource manager is further programmed... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070156846 - Method of enabling a wireless information device to access customer support services: If an end-user of a wireless information device has a support requirement, he opens a data connection from his device to a customer support computer; the data connection remains open whilst the device progresses up a queue of an automated queuing system connected to the customer support computer. A predefined... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070156850 - Secure remote access using portable storage device: In some embodiments a communication between a portable storage device and a local computer is detected and a secure connection is established between the local computer and a remote storage device in response to the detecting. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070156848 - Software management systems and methods, including use of such systems and methods in a provider-tenant environment: Exemplary methods and systems may associate data structures specific to a first tenant with a first tenant template, determine whether new data structures are specific to the first tenant, and if so, associate the new data structures with a second tenant template. By doing so, methods and systems may determine... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070156852 - System and method for performing flash crowd caching of dynamically generated objects in a data communication network: The present invention is directed towards a “flash crowd” technique for handling situations where the cache receives additional requests, e.g.,. nearly simultaneous requests, for the same object during the time the server is processing and returning the response object for a first requester. Once all such nearly simultaneous requests are... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070156847 - System, receiver, method, and program for distribution content: A system (100) for distributing a content (101) has a distributor (103) of the content (101) and a receiver (102) for receiving the content (101) from the distributor (103). The receiver (102) has a selector (104) for selecting a distributor (103) from a plurality of distributors, content-requesting means (105) for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070156849 - Systems and methods for delivering software upgrades in a provider-tenant environment: Exemplary methods and systems consistent with the present invention allow for upgrading a first tenant of a plurality of tenants. By receiving a patch including a data structure not shared by the plurality of tenants, and informing an administrator associated with the provider that a patch is available, a provider... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070156863 - Communication protocol for wireless data exchange via a packet transport based system: A protocol for wireless data exchange may be used in conjunction with two or more portable computer systems. One of the portable computer systems may be a personal digital assistant (PDA) having an internal or an external wireless communication unit. The protocol can be used by a sending application residing... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20070156862 - Computer system: In a computer system in which a plurality of computers is connected through a network, each computer is allowed to utilize a function of another computer. There are provided policy information and autonomous configuration client for a client computer and server information and autonomous configuration server for a server computer.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070156861 - Discovering, defining, and implementing computer application topologies: A method and system for discovering, defining, and implementing an application topology through the user of a graphical user interface is provided. A topology system may analyze the topology of an enterprise and provide a graphical representation of the application topology. The topology system may discover the application topology of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070156860 - Implementing computer application topologies on virtual machines: A method and system for discovering, defining, and implementing an application topology through the user of a graphical user interface is provided. A topology system may analyze the topology of an enterprise and provide a graphical representation of the application topology. The topology system may discover the application topology of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070156858 - Method, apparatus and system for platform identity binding in a network node: Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for binding various platform identities for a policy negotiation are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070156857 - Systems and methods for automatic configuration of devices within a network utilizing inherited configuration data: Systems and methods for configuration of devices within a network utilizing inherited configuration data are disclosed. Configuration data stored at a junction box in electronic communication with a first device is accessed. The configuration data includes a default zone of interest assignment for a first device. The zone of interest... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070156859 - Web services archive: An Web service (WS) archive is described. The archive includes components that define and describe the deployable WS such as the implementation classes of the WS, the WSDL of the WS, and descriptors that provide more detail than what is described in a normal WSDL that are specific to the... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156864 - Software architecture system and method for operating an appliance in multiple operating modes: In one embodiment, a system for controlling a plurality of devices having at least two operating modes comprises a first software operating layer configured to control the operation of at least one of the devices in a first operational mode and a second software operating layer configured to control the... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20070156871 - Secure dynamic html pages: A computer-implemented method and computer program product for filtering web content at a portal/intranet server. A web page is received at a portal/intranet server having hypertext markup language (HTML) content embedded with one or more active scripts. The one or more active scripts are parsed from the HTML content. A... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070156866 - Address management in mobile ip environments: A data unit processing entity (4) is described, which has a decision part (41) for setting a forwarding address FA on the basis of an identifying address in a received data unit, by referring to decision data stored in a decision data memory (42). A management part (43) is provided,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070156879 - Considering remote end point performance to select a remote end point to use to transmit a task: Provided are a method, system and program for considering remote end point performance to select a remote end point to use to transmit a task. A maximum outstanding tasks and a current outstanding tasks comprising a number of outstanding tasks transmitted over a network are provided. A task is received... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070156882 - Data acquisition engine and system for an appliance: A data acquisition method comprising looking into a memory heap of event structures having condition parameters of at least one of memory pointers, event operators, and arguments; identifying event conditions that evaluate as true by evaluating the condition parameters for the even structures; and generating a notification message when a... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20070156867 - Developing qos aware pervasive applications for web service interaction: A system is described for selecting web services accessible over a network (380). The system comprises a pervasive device (10), one or more servers (20) in communication with the network (380) and supporting at least one base web service (502) that provides an output in reply to a request from... Agent: Ibm Almaden (ave) C/o Law Office Of Anthony England

20070156868 - Efficient dynamic discovery of web services: The disclosure provides generally systems and methods for efficiently providing or managing dynamic files involving discovery of web services. Example software for dynamic web service discovery is operable to identify a first web service associated with a first entity. The software may be further operable to identify a second web... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070156870 - Heartbeat subscriptions: Example embodiments provide for “heartbeat” subscriptions which can be thought of as pseudo-events that can occur periodically for any subscription. Notification of a heartbeat event can be sent in lieu of, or in addition to, regular events to inform the subscriber application of such things like the subscription is still... Agent: Rick Nydegger Workman Nydegger

20070156884 - High availability for event forwarding: High availability event forwarding can be obtained utilizing distributed queues in a server cluster. Each server can receive an event from a data system, such as a database or SAP™ system. Event queues exist on servers in the cluster can store an event until, for example, the event is delivered... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070156869 - Load balancing algorithm for servicing client requests: A connection manager includes a dispatcher that dispatches requests to worker nodes in an application server according to a load balancing algorithm.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156865 - Method and apparatus for downloading an operating system or an application in cdma system: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for downloading an operating system (OS) or an application and installing it on a set of base station controllers (BSCs) in a CDMA mobile communication system. According to the present invention, when a newer version of an OS or application... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070156874 - Method and apparatus for transparent selection of alternate network interfaces in a message passing interface (\"mpi\") implementation: A message passing interface (“MPI”) cluster may be initialized and configured by reading a list of node identifiers from a file, starting a process on each node whose identifier was listed, and providing a second list of node identifiers to the process.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070156872 - Method and system for web services deployment: A method and system for Web service deployment is described. The system includes a Web services deployment manager, a plurality of modules to perform deployment tasks, and a common API between the deployment manager and the plurality of modules.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156881 - Method for checking vehicle status in home telematics system: Provided a method for checking a vehicle status in a home telematics system. The method includes steps of requesting for a vehicle state check service; transmitting an authentication request message having a telephone number and authentication information; comparing authentication information associated with the telephone number, with the authentication information of... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070156873 - Methods, systems, and products for provisioning communications services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for provisioning communications services. Provisioning information for a third party service provider is stored in a provisioning database. A query from a network provider is received, and the provisioning information is retrieved. A response is sent to the network provider, and the response includes... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070156877 - Server identification in storage networks: Described are techniques for providing a host identifier for a host. A first portion including a first identifier associated with a system image for the host is received. A second portion including a second identifier generated in accordance with a hardware property of said host is received. The host identifier... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20070156883 - System and method for group to group entertainment: A hardware and software platform for collaboratively reviewing prior group to group interactions while planning, producing and archiving new group to group interactions. The platform may be used to collaboratively create group to group interactions. The system may be used to link two or more stadia, movie theatres or homes... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

20070156878 - System and method for managing workflow execution in a distributed system: A method, system, and computer program product for managing at least one work flow in a distributed system are disclosed. The method includes receiving a notification from a central storage system identifying a participant's information processing system as at least one participant in at least one workflow. The at least... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070156876 - System and method for performing flash caching of dynamically generated objects in a data communication network: The present invention is directed towards a method and system for providing a technique referred to as flash caching to respond to requests for an object, such as a dynamically generated object, from multiple clients. This technique of the present invention uses a dynamically generated object stored in a buffer... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070156880 - System and method to manage set history for simple network management protocol: A system and method to manage a SET history of a simple network management protocol (SNMP), the system including an SNMP manager to access a network apparatus and to request an object ID, and an SNMP agent to set the object ID in response to the request and to transmit... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070156875 - Systems and methods for managing a provider's online status in a distributed network: A system manages communications between a provider and a requestor in a distributed network. A requester is implemented on a computing device and provides a stay online binding. The stay online binding identifies a binding that is desired by the requester. A provider is implemented on a computing device and... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070156888 - Dynamically repositioning workflow by end users: Systems and methods that dynamically reset a workflow state by employing a dynamic state manager that is external to the workflow, and enables interaction of a host with a workflow instance. An event driven workflow or state machine workflow can be supplied, wherein ad hoc events are employed to reset... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070156891 - Automated response to computer user's context: Techniques are described for providing information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes. In some situations the providing includes receiving from a first client an indication of an interest in receiving values for an indicated one of the state attributes of the modeled current state, receiving... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070156893 - Drug marketing and development tool: A system and method for remotely querying an individual regarding effects of a pharmaceutical drug includes a server and a remote apparatus that receives computer executable commands from the server over a communications channel, wherein the computer executable commands represent data queries related to the pharmaceutical drug, wherein the remote... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070156885 - Management interface for radio stations: A graphical management interface for a radio station that simplifies programming interactions for a user. The interface has a display region for presenting programmed functions of the station. The region has first and second controls for user selection of input conditions to form programmed functions, and for user selection of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070156886 - Message organization and spam filtering based on user interaction: Embodiments of message organization and spam filtering based on user interaction are presented herein. In an implementation, user interaction with a plurality of messages in a user interface is monitored, which includes analyzing an amount of time spent by a user in interacting with each message. Subsequent messages may then... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070156889 - Method and system for determining application availability: A method and system for determining an availability of an application. Pairs of processes utilized by the application are determined. Each pair includes consumer and provider processes. For each pair, a diagnostic transaction is initiated by the pair's consumer process, utilizes an application programming interface (API) to open a connection... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070156890 - Method for tracking network transactions: A method, software product, a computer readable medium and a system for tracking network transactions in a data network, the method comprising at least one client and at least three servers, wherein data is transmitted over the data network between at least one client and at least a first server... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070156887 - Predicting ad quality: A system provides one or more advertisements to users in response to search queries and logs user behavior associated with user selection of the one or more advertisements. The system also logs features associated with selected ones of the one or more advertisements, or associated with the search queries. The... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070156892 - Smart appliance functionality: A communications network, system, and method includes a server; a primary device in communication with the server through a communications channel, wherein the primary device comprises a component that detects data transmissions from the server, and transmits the detected data transmissions; and a secondary device connected to the primary device,... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070156894 - Consistent user interface front end for remote user interfaces: A method and device for providing a single consistent user interface based on replacing disparate user interface constructs (components) with equivalent constructs (components) from a “synonym” database of user interface constructs (components). The database is initiated with a set of foundational “synonym” constructs (components) and extended with user interface constructs... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070156897 - Enforcing control policies in an information management system: A method and apparatus for controlling document access and application usage using centrally managed rules. The rules are stored and manipulated in a central rule database via a rule server. Policy enforcers are installed on client systems and/or on servers and perform document access and application usage control for both... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20070156900 - Evaluating a questionable network communication: Identifying a questionable network address from a network communication. In an embodiment, a network device receives an incoming or outgoing connection request, a web page, an email, or other network communication. An evaluation module evaluates the network communication for a corresponding network address, which may be for the source or... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070156899 - Method and appratus for accessing home storage or internet storage: A method and apparatus are provided for accessing an Internet storage. In the method, access to a home storage is controlled, and an internet storage which has higher access reliability than the home storage is accessed, if the access to the home storage is not available. Accordingly, even when the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070156898 - Method, apparatus and computer program for access control: A method, apparatus and computer program for controlling access to a publish/subscribe message broker. Publish/subscribe functions provided by the message broker are divided into function sets. Each function set is associated with a communication path. A request is received at the message broker via one of a plurality of communication... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070156895 - System and method of dynamic management of spam: There is disclosed a system and method of dynamically managing spam directed to a communications device. In an embodiment, a contact for each incoming message item is compared to contacts on a whitelist. If the contact is not found on the whitelist, the contact is added to a blacklist based... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20070156896 - System, method and program to synchronize file transmission in a distributed computer system: System, method and program for transferring same files from a first computer to a plurality of second computers. Respective measures of file transfer rates from the first computer to the second computers are determined. Based on the respective measures of file transfer rates from the first computer to the second... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070156901 - Generation and use of table links in a provider-tenant environment: Exemplary methods and systems may allow for a first tenant of a plurality of tenants to access a data structure at a provider database, wherein each of the plurality of tenants has common access to the data structure. By receiving, from the first tenant, a data request identifying the data... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070156905 - Method for implementing resource management: The present invention discloses a method for implementing cross-domain resource management. If requesting for service connection resources, for each domain, a border Call Agent (CA) first sends a connection resource request to a specific bearer network resource manager in its domain. This bearer network resource manager decides whether the destination... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070156903 - Methods and apparatuses for managing resources within a collaboration system: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses utilize an application within a meeting zone; monitor usage within the meeting zone; detect a resource located outside the meeting zone; dynamically add the resource within the meeting zone; and update a database configured to track a status of the resource.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070156906 - Negotiated wireless peripheral security systems: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network connection and a wireless wide area network connection. The local area network connection is used to establish a position-dependent... Agent: Eric M. Dowling

20070156904 - System and method for system information centralization: A system and method for configuration using abstract configuration information is described. In an embodiment, an abstract configuration module acts like an informational proxy between components of a system. The configuration module provides a level of abstraction that allows for some properties to be abstracted instead of being hard coded... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156902 - Systems and methods for implementing a tenant space in a provider-tenant environment: The present invention discloses methods and systems for tenants to execute application software hosted by a provider in a computer-based environment. For instance, the provider server may receive a data request identifying a particular data structure associated with the application software and to be used by a first tenant. The... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070156910 - Method and apparatus for displaying information during an instant messaging session: A method and an apparatus are provided for controlling a graphical user interface to display information related to a communication session. Information relating to data produced by a first participant to the communication session is displayed on a first display unit, wherein the information produced by the first participant is... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20070156908 - Network entity, method and computer program product for effectuating a conference session: A network entity, method and computer program product are provided for effectuating a conference session. The method includes receiving a plurality of audio measurements representative of audio levels adjacent respective participants of the conference session. At least one of the audio measurements can be received from a proximity network including... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070156909 - Proxy for extending ims services to mobile terminals with sms capabilities: A SMS/MMS Proxy maintains SIP user identities in an IMS network on behalf of SMS capable mobile terminals to give legacy mobile terminals a presence in the IMS network. The SMS/MMS Proxy includes an application server to translate text messages received from a mobile terminal via a gateway into SIP... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070156907 - Session handling based on shared session information: A connection manager and worker nodes of an application server are both capable to access and control a shared memory session table.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070156911 - Control of communication session attributes in network employing firewall protection: Techniques are disclosed for centralized control of one or more attributes associated with a communication session in a network containing firewalls. By way of example, a technique for controlling an attribute associated with a communication session in a data communication network includes the following steps. The attribute associated with the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070156912 - Systems and methods for controlling access within a system of networked and non-networked processor-based systems: In one embodiment, access log information is written to portable cards of end-users of system that includes networked and non-networked processor based systems that control user access. In conjunction with processing of access attempts by non-networked processor-based systems, time stamps of accesses by each end-user for multiple accesses on multiple... Agent: C.s. Lee Crawford

20070156914 - Applying a transfer function to a signal for determining compliance to a specification: An apparatus and a method for implementing transmitter compliance transfer functions in software are disclosed. As per the present invention, a transfer function model is provided to modify the real time signal received from a device, such as a transmitter, to be analyzed. The real-time signal is modified according to... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070156915 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus is connected to a network and performs processing for communications with other apparatus connected to the network. The information processing apparatus includes a first processor and a second processor. The first processor is configured to perform, in response to a request from an application program, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070156913 - Method for enabling extension points through plug-ins: Methods and software are described which provide the ability to use plug-ins to extend functionality for J2EE applications. The methods involve use of an application deployment package including a plug-in manifest file containing plug-in meta-data, a unique identifier for the plug-in and interconnection data representing interconnections to other plug-in packages.... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070156916 - Method of correlating events in data packet streams: A method of correlating events in a stream of data packets each representing an event, wherein each data packet carries at least one attribute of its event, comprises the following steps: classifying events according to event types and incorporating an identifier of the type of its event into each data... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070156917 - Scalable architecture for maximizing slide throughput: Method and system for imaging and analyzing a biological specimen on a specimen carrier, such as a slide. One or more imagers acquire images of a biological specimen on a slide and generate electronic image data. One or more analysis computers, such as a cluster of analysis computers, are connected... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070156918 - Method for connecting a wireless device to a remote location on a network: A method for connecting a wireless device to a remote location on a computer network. A beacon signal is transmitted from a beacon unit disposed at a first geographic location. The beacon signal includes components indicative of a first code and of a second code, the first code being associated... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070156920 - Control apparatus and its method, and control program and storage medium holding it, with changing of transmission source: A controller which exists between a client apparatus and an image processing apparatus and which controls access from the client apparatus such that the client apparatus can use a network server function of the image processing apparatus, its control method and control program and storage medium. To accomplish this, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070156919 - Enforcing network service level agreements in a network element: Enforcing network service level agreements in a network infrastructure element comprises receiving, at the network infrastructure element, an application-layer message comprising one or more of the packets; forwarding the application-layer message toward a destination endpoint and concurrently copying the application-layer message without disrupting the forwarding; using the copied application-layer message,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070156922 - High availability for event forwarding: High availability event forwarding can be obtained utilizing distributed queues in a server cluster. Each server can receive an event from a data system, such as a database or SAP™ system. Event queues exist on servers in the cluster can store an event until, for example, the event is delivered... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070156921 - Method and system for making statistics of media flow information in a next generation network: A method for making statistics of media flow information may include: sending a request for making statistics of media flow information to a BGF; and receiving statistic information of the media flow from the BGF, wherein the statistic information of the media flow is metered by the BGF after receiving... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070156925 - Information processing apparatus, information equipment, information processing system, automatic backup method, data transmission and reception method, automatic backup program, data transmission and reception program, and record medium having the progra: A PC is comprised of a processing device 1 which performs processings such as converting manipulated data into a human-comprehensible format or data updating according to entered information, a display device 3 which presents information such as images and sounds to the user, a storage device 4 which stores data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070156924 - Method and apparatus for transcoding and transrating in distributed video systems: Disclosed are video conferencing systems, devices, architectures, and methods for transcoding, transrating, and the like, to facilitate video streaming in a distributed arrangement. An exemplary translator in accordance with embodiments can include: an input configured to receive a first video stream in a first format, the first video stream being... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070156923 - Methods and apparatuses for tracking progress of an invited participant: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses include modifying content on a customized web page initiated by a host; monitoring the customized web page for the content modified by the host; displaying the content on the customized web page to an invited participant; and tracking a change to the customized... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070156926 - Bridge with sequential software modules: A bridge includes first and second network connections, and processor means and memory together operating to implement plural software modules. These allow data to be passed between the network connections and allow the data to be handled as it passes. Each software modules has a priority, either pre-set in software... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070156927 - Power line outlet strip and method for powerline communications: A powerstrip apparatus having powerline networking capability. The apparatus has a housing member, which an outer region and an inner region. An AC power line is coupled to the housing member. In a specific embodiment, the AC powerline includes a male connector device, e.g., two prong, three prong. The apparatus... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070156928 - Token passing scheme for multithreaded multiprocessor system: A token passing mechanism reduces unnecessary thread stalls in a multithreaded microprocessor system. In a multithreaded microprocessor system, in order processing for critical sections is managed through the use of tokens with access to each critical section restricted to the thread having the token associated with the critical section. A... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC